Review 117: Prometheus
The film is a half prequel to Alien. In 2089, archaeologist couple Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a star map discovered among the remnants of several ancient Earth civilizations. Led to a distant world and an advanced civilization on bored the spaceship Prometheus, Shaw, Holloway and the crew seek the origins of humanity, but instead discover a threat that could cause the extinction of the human race.
The plot is a work of genius and has some very interesting ideas
Ridley Scott has described the central theme of this film as: Who made us? Where do we go afterwards and how valid is that? Those are some very interesting, complex, heavy and weighty questions that he poses. It's always been the question that humans have asked themselves or maybe even looked up at the stars and decided that there were gods up there in the skies and dictating how we would live our lives.
It's a story that will intrigue some and possibly fustrate others. It the plot raises questions and does not answer them, which made the film intriguing and gets you thinking and asking (Who created us?)
the films opens with some creepy
Ridley Scott's direction is eerie and suspenseful, beautifully lighting up the screen with suspenseful, intriguing atmosphere, the the locations are fantastic, the production design is outstanding, the cinematography is brilliant and captures the bleak, barren alien planet, the score by Marc Streitenfeld is beautifully, breathtakingly creepy, the special effects are tremendous, the costume design is great, the make up is authentic, the sound effects are brilliant, the props are great, there are some of the best scenes of intensity and and horror since Alien and the ending was superb.
The acting is marvelous, Noomi Rapace is great as Elizabeth Shaw, she's strong minded, determined and capable. Shaw is also driven strongly by faith
Logan Marshall-Green is brilliant as Charlie Holloway. Holloway is very much a contrast to Shaw. Whereas Shaw has unshakable faith and is very much a believer, Holloway is a scientist, a skeptic and an atheist. He's also an "X-Games" scientist with a "leap before looking" philosophy.
He doesn't want to meet his maker. Quite the opposite, he wants to stand next to his maker. He's willing to go to the edge to get that. He very much goes to the extreme in everything he does, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse of the Prometheus crew.
He's very much driven by the thrill of the search.
Michael Fassbender is mesmerising as the android David. David is very much a butler to the Prometheus crew. He's always there but never in the way and makes sure that everything's in order on the ship. David was designed by the Weyland Corporation to be indistinguishable from humans and begins to develop its own ego, insecurities, jealousy and envy.
David's views on the Prometheus crew are somewhat childlike. He's jealous and arrogant because he realises that his knowledge is all-encompassing and therefore he is superior to the humans.
Ultimately, David just wants to be acknowledged and praised for his brilliance.
Charlize Theron delivers and appropriately cold and enigmatic performance as Meredith Vickers, the moniter of the expedition. Vickers is very much a suit who sheds her skin through the film. She defiantly can be interpreted as somewhat of a villain who defiantly has her own agenda.
She's also pragmatic and desperately wants to control the situation. She's very much a character that we as an audience should be suspicious of.
Idris Elba is also terrific in this film playing Janek, the captain of Prometheus. Janek is a longshoreman and a sailor with a military background. His role is his life and the crew is his responsibility. He's also a very realistic and pragmatic character. In a film with very weighty, huge themes, Janek is the character who says "Wait... why are we doing this?"
Guy Pearce
Prometheus is a suspenseful, horrific, thrilling and exiting science fiction film and a welcome return to the sci fi genre for Ridley Scott and I'm interested in what will happen if he makes a sequel, 5/5.
The Anonymous Critic
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