Chix Chat on Film Review: Alien a new beginning.

Rating: 9/10 (8 June 2012)

Prometheus is the name of the spaceship built by Weyland Corp, a staple in the Alien series, to explore a star system that the lead scientist Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) believes holds the key to understanding the origin of human-kind. She chooses to believe that 'the engineers' of human DNA as depicted in ancient drawings are inviting mankind to come on by and say 'hi'. I had seen the trailer and heard her say that so many times that when it was finally delivered in the film, I just wanted to slap her, and I had a slap for Captain Janek (Idris Elba) with that stupid country accent, and a few other crew members for just being plain stupid. This was one of those rare occasions when I was glad the actor did not consistently maintain his characters accent, Janek was much better when the accent failed. I understand that you have to have a heaping helping of idiots to make for all the mayhem that can jump off on a distant alien planet, but really how can everyone be so cavalier? I expected this Alien prequel (whether you call it that or not) to provide answers, but I was left with even more questions. For one thing what happened to a light year for measuring distance in space travel? When did space travel start to measure distance in kilometers with a mathematical formula that only a genius level mathematician can decipher? Evidently, some time prior to 2093. In just 80 years the technology will be phenomenal, there are space ships that are architectural marvels, the ability to preserve life in hyper-sleep, man has created near perfect synthetic humanoids, and with monitoring equipment on everything and everybody, how is it that when you get a knock at your front door you can't see who or what is there and just open the portal? Why is nobody afraid? What happened to 'be afraid, be very afraid'? I will say that the cinematography and special effects were supreme, the opening credits landscape shots were breathtaking, but why is it that every planet worthy of exploration is in close proximity to or is a Saturn clone? Putting my questions aside, Michael Fassbender (David) gave a brilliant performance. His lack of emotion conveying a personality completely devoid of compassion seemed so effortless, as a synthetic he walked the walk and talked the talk. Hopefully my questions were not misleading giving an impression that I was less than amazed, quite the contrary this film met my every expectations and is definitely green light material.