Meredith: Son of a Bitch! They were right!
I’ve added two posters as I couldn’t decide which was better!
Director:
Producer:
Ridley Scott, David Giler & Walter Hill
Writer:
Cast:
Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw
Michael Fassbender as David
Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland
Charlize Theron as Meredith Vickers
Idris Elba as Janek
Logan Marshall-Green as Charlie Holloway
Rafe Spall as Milburn
Sean Harris as Fifield
Music:
Story:
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Review:
Ridley Scott, in 1979, changed the meaning of monster. In the dictionary, you’d see a picture of a Xenomorph against the word Scary. He took haunted house genre to a whole new dimension (and solar system). Here Ellen Ripley was hunted by an Alien. This movie spawned 3 sequels (Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection). And now, 33 years later, Ridley returns to sci-fi and to the Alien Universe with Prometheus.
Prometheus starts of with a prologue, showing us a scene of a beautiful landscape, which I think is ancient earth. A large humanoid thing drinks something from a cup and dives in to the waterfall. This, I feel, was an awesome start to the movie. We then flash forward to 2089, where Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Hollaway are discovering the pictograms.
On Prometheus, we see the whole crew in hypersleep and David, the android, is watching Lawrence of Arabia. Then as we reach LV 223, Charlize Theron’s character has woken up and she instructs David to wake the others up. Then when we reach the planet, the fun starts. They see a large pyramid kind of structure. Its origins is unknown but it’s hollow on the inside. So, the team ventures into it, to find the makers of mankind. But what they find could just be their end.
David finds a mysterious pane, which on activation shows a hologram of large aliens running and one getting decapitated. As they follow the hologram, they find the body of the alien, and when David opens the door, they find the head. Along with the head they find a large statue has features resembling that of Humans. They also find some canisters. Shaw then takes the head back to Prometheus. Where, they realize that the alien is wearing a helmet. Which on removing, reveals a human like face. And it is then that they realize that they have found their makers!
The whole pyramid thing, reminded me of the one in AVP, and this was so beautifully constructed. The canisters with the black liquid oozing out and the large head, was amazing. The later we see two crew members being attacked by what I’m assuming is a pre-face hugger, or what I’d like to cal finger hugger. The whole movie, gets interesting from there on out.
Charlize Theron acts so well. She carried out the role of Meredith. She was so cold and mean, that I actually thought she was a robot. But Fassbender does an AWESOME job as David the android. He and Meredith, have ulterior motives. We find out later in the movie that Peter Weyland is still alive and in hypersleep. He has actually come here to see mankind’s makers.
The large humanoid aliens, our makers, were so awesome. They were large and looked scary too. The SFX in the movie were too good. And Noomi Rapace acted nicely for her first lead role post-millennium series. The 3D effect just enhances your experience of the movie. And the insta-pregnancy of Elizabeth Shaw, and her removing the alien out was an awesome scene too. But then, the alien that she removes, turns out to be alive.
When David reveals that there is actually an Alien still alive, Peter is killed when they open it and then it turns out that they were standing in the ship of the alien, which is on a course to earth to destroy it. After crashing the aliens space craft, it still is alive and hunts Elizabeth Shaw. And in the end Elizabeths baby, which is now fully grown, crushes it.
Then David, whose head was ripped off by the alien, tells Shaw that there are other ships as well, which he can pilot. She then asks if he can pilot them to the planet of the makers. I found only one problem in this movie. This takes place before Alien right? So how does Prometheus have more advanced technology than the ship in Aliens?
The end of the movie where a baby Xenomorph, rips through the aliens chest, after it was planted by large Octopus-alien thing.
Other than that it is a very good movie!
Final Verdict:
8.5/10
Galactica 