April Barkley
WCB Movie Writer
Studio- Scott Free Productions Director- Ridley Scott Starring- Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green Rating- 2 out of 4 stars |
Love
slimy creatures breaking through people’s stomachs? Of course you do! So go see
Prometheus. I was excited for this film because of Alien. It was a good science-fictiony movie but I wasn’t all that
impressed by the end. I guess I had just high expectations. The graphics kicked
ass, there was some good action and violent scenes with plenty of slimy alien
stuff, but the plot had some holes and character development didn’t happen at
all.
The
plot asks a lot of questions and there’s a lot of wondering by the audiences
but we never truly learn the answers. So you know what the means. Sequel. There
are definite connections to Alien but
that doesn’t mean you won’t understand the film if you haven’t seen Alien, which is plus for all viewers.
Directed
by Ridley Scott, the film is set far into the future. It follows a crew on the spaceship Prometheus as
they investigate discovered remnants of ancient Earth cultures. They end up in
an area unlike anything they’ve ever seen. Their plan is to discover the beginnings
of humanity, but instead find something that could cause the extinction of the
human race. Clearly the opposite of what they were going for.
The
plot was an interesting idea, even though it’s been done before but it was
pretty disorganized. What saves the messy plot is the thrills and chills of
aliens and awesome visual effects. There’s religion, horror, philosophy, and
science all poured into one pot. Compared to Alien, it doesn’t compare but standing on its own, it delivers.
It was worth
seeing. Personally, I would have rather seen more aliens going inside people’s
bodies than anything else. There was too much dialogue between characters that nobody
cares about. But, when they got back to the action, I was satisfied. It’s being
compared to classic sci-fi films and it shouldn’t be because it’s not going to
be a classic movie that we will talk about for years to come. Anyone who simply
enjoys aliens and science fiction movies will enjoy this movie. It won’t win
best picture but it’s just a good, not great, sci-fi ride.
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