Prometheus Review

At last, my reverse marathon on the Alien films draw to a close with this film, the most anticipated film this year in my opinion and an ambitious film at that as it does it's best to open up more ideas in the Alien universe and makes light to some questions from Alien, so after months of waiting and projector problems, I managed to see it.

Prometheus is a film that basically ask a question about "Who created us?" which is linked to the question in Alien that is "Who is the Space Jockey?" and the film is a journey of discovery as we try to find the answers which unfortunately leads to more questions than answers by the end (Thanks to Damon Lindelof, one of the writers of Lost). That doesn't stop this from being a very good film though, one of the strengths of this film is the great casting with the likes of Noomi Rapace who plays Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Is Ridley a Doctor Who fan?) and Michael Fassbender as the David 8 android who would be classed as both a good and bad character and the film mainly focuses on these two characters more than the rest of the Prometheus crew which don't feel much for them, you just think which crew member is going to get killed first and how they will die.

Personally the film does feel like a less than great Alien in some way, the plot feels like a very loose version of that film but the primary focus is the Space Jockey, as the film progresses, more plot lines appear and either ended in an unspectacular fashion or or are left unfinished like the side plot where one of the characters was "Infected" and gets another character impregnated with something horrible and familiar which you will figure it out what it is and what will happen towards the end, that plot feels pushed aside and doesn't get any proper development, it just appears at various points in the second half and only one of the characters actually know of it which seems odd. The history of what happened on the planet they were on seems unanswered as well as the Prometheus crew see a hologram of Space Jockey running away from something but is never explored which seems puzzling.

The second half of the film moves at a surprisingly faster pace with David awakening a Space Jockey and discovers their plan and the reveal of the hidden agenda of Weyland Industries yet everybody except one crew member seems oblivious of the horror in Prometheus which does feel rather odd, you would have thought that member would have told the rest of the crew what is in the ship. The ending does feel reminiscent of Alien as it ends in a similar way, except that was not the ending, no the ending is the start of something, something horrible and familiar which feels tacked on as to please the fans rather than making it more constructive. So basically if you want to make a film set in the Alien universe, don't have Damon Lindelof as the co-writer, he needs to learn how to write an ending and understand that you have to answer questions.

Film:            7/10