A Good Watch

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2013)

Now then this is the first review I will be putting up for a film and the reason I am even writing this review is due to all the negative reviews that appeared under here for so long it actually put me off watching it until last night and not going to the cinema to watch it.
I actually made a IMDb account to write this review as it certainly does not deserve "one star" or three stars as many reviewers have given it people seem to be so quick to bash this movie based on there knowledge of how the universe should work e.g.
*Spoiler* One of the characters removes his helmet rather quickly after finding out the air was breathable a few reviews immediately bashed this with "he doesn't have a clue as to foreign bodies in the air!" seriously, they make it seem like he does it and everyone is okay with it, no everyone was telling him not to do it, but he went ahead anyway almost like a leap of faith which is the continuous theme throughout this movie.
The characters were decent and interesting enough not a huge amount of development on them but yet again this is another point people dwell on, go back to the original Alien movie and tell me how much development was in there.
The acting was good again people bash in the reactions of the characters *Spoiler* the man with the cobra thing in front of him just earlier freaks out and wants to head back to the ship but when confronted by the cobra puts his hand near it several times he even says the line "its mesmerised" so he thinks the cobra is safe to go near plus with his suit he probably thinks it is safe to go near it. Honestly when this scene came up I didn't even think about it as being "implausable" he was not acting out of character he was a biologist, not only that, the whole scene with the cobra was a nod at the first alien movie when they first encounter the face hugger, its ability to squeeze tightly when its threatened to be removed, acid for blood etc.
The writing was good also, nothing spectacular but not bad writing either as everyone again is so quick to bash seriously again go back to the original Alien and tell me how good the writing really is in that movie, even in Aliens one of my all time favourites which has so many memorable lines the writing was good the writing in this was good but not amazing.
This film is not a bad film as its made out to be and because all these reviews on here I went ahead and chose not to watch it and I wish I did watch it sooner, the cast is interesting and has important characters but again go back to the first alien how many characters were memorable and that amount goes down fast, the acting is good as previously mentioned maybe one or two overreactions, the same happens in the first alien movie. The special effects are very nice as are the practical effects its nice to see in a modern film an attempt to use these practical animatronics as often as possible. The film is suppose to be an origin story of the space jockey and in that I believe this film succeeds and throws a good twist in there whilst doing so and showing what the Aliens were to begin with consider the cobra a MK1 version of the facehugger and the large squid at the end, a MK2 version. The film also has its own agendas which is to deal with creationism in a strange way it almost takes what creationists take with the god idea of "meeting our maker" and makes it not a god but a human who is using humanity almost as an experiment.
Thats my final point people saying "why did they create us and now why are they getting rid of us?" seriously they make it seem like that isn't raised in the movie, it is, not only that its left to the audience to decide why, could it just be an experiment?
This film is certainly not without its flaws however one of the main ones I realised was the Prometheus ship itself *Spoiler* when crashing into the Engineers ship you saw wreckage bouncing around everywhere and also the people that the Engineer killed surely when in the original Alien and even in Aliens these would be found in those movies some remnants would be there? not a problem to me however its a movie I enjoyed it for what it was a origin story of the space jockey and the aliens reason for existing, a biological weapon good idea.