Prometheus a review

Probably the film most shrouded in Mystery this year, the biggest question naturally was 'is it Alien prequel or not' well..it is, but not really. Not a direct prequel at least, but it does share some of 'Alien's DNA' to quote director's Ridley Scott's own words.

The story follows scientist's Elizabeth Shaw (played by Noomi Rapace, I swore I heard one of the characters called her 'Lisbeth' at one point lol) on her journey to find the alien race called 'Engineers' (also space jockeys) only, she, along with the crew of the ship Prometheus, landed on the Engineers home world, but rather a base where the engineers engineer (excuse the pun) a weapon for reasons not so benevolent.

Of all films in the Alien Franchise, this has to stand as one of the better ones (below Alien and Aliens), it is also a perfect combination of Alien and Aliens (is that a hint of Avatar I see there?)

The casts in this film were all splendid, and like everyone else, I agree that Michael Fassbender's performance shines the brightest as the android David which has Bishop's likeability factor and Ash's dastardliness, and well Fassbender's charm, such a delightful character.

Overall this is a pretty good film, but it fails sadly, to be on Alien level. It poses so many questions but not the answers to those questions. It looks fantastic and 3D's done pretty well (the opening looks particularly good in 3D)  I think they should move on with the sequel already and answer the questions!

3.5/5