Pre Alien.

Rating: 9/10 (23 June 2015)

Prometheus (2012): Dir: Ridley Scott / Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba: One of the great treasures of this film is that Ridley Scott decided not to recreate his horror shocker Alien. Instead he creates a film where his famous creatures exist but only in the outskirts. The plot regards the damages that result in the discoveries in Alien. We are told what happened before the original events took place. Set in 2093 with seventeen crew members landing on a barren planet only to discover the result of a wreckage involving beings of far superior size. What wiped them out is what the crew attempted to unearth. The film is populated with well drawn characters. Noomi Rapace is every bit as courageous as Sigourney Weaver and soon realizes that she is pregnant with an alien. She will perform a graphic procedure to extract this condition. Michael Fassbender steals scenes as android David who is intelligent and the property of an aged individual originally behind the mission to learn where mankind came from. Guy Pearce plays this role under effective aged makeup spouting a "we came from aliens" babble that goes over Rapace's head. Charlize Theron plays Pearce's daughter who is against the mission and causes much tension. Idris Elba plays the captain of the Prometheus and who will see his team vanquished. While the references to Alien are evident, it stands on its own with a spectacular world of caves, wreckage sites, slender creatures and beings that pave the way to Scott's classic as well as present its own shocking revelations. Score: 9 / 10