All Around Fantastic Movie

Rating: 8/10 (14 July 2012)

I found Prometheus to be a great movie. I think Ridley Scott really took things up a notch in this movie. It had small aspects of alien within it, but one could almost say that this movie had no relation to alien at all. I went with a friend to see this movie who had never seen alien, but he still understood it and found it intriguing.
The movie to me was very intense, especially in the fact that so much was unknown. I was arguing once with a friend on whether Prometheus was a good movie or not: He didn't like it because of the major questions that went unanswered, but that is what drew me into the story. This movie reminded me of the first person style in Cloverfield and The Blair WItch Project. The camera did not shake everywhere, I found the camera angles were chosen perfectly by the cinematographer, but the audience only knew as much as the main character knew.
All the unanswered questions helped make the movie seem very realistic. If one were to land on some random planet and find something dangerous that they did not understand, it would turn out much like Promtheus. The characters tried to understand what they are up against, but one cannot understand an entire civilization in a few days.
For example, when David was in the warp sleep chamber awaking the "creators" it seemed as if all the answers were going to be solved. Lets just say the Creator did not do what they expected and nothing was solved. It seemed as if the point of the movie was to say one doesn't have all the answers, but still must react to the situation, like when Idris Elba actually crashed the Prometheus into the Creator ship despite the lack of knowledge on whether the ships was heading to Earth or not. Also when David asked Noomi Rapace why she still kept her cross necklace despite what had happened, her response summed up what I am saying. She may not understand it all, but she will still keep on going anyways.
In the end though, Noomi's character shows humanity's quest for knowledge because instead of going home, she goes to search for more answers. In all, I loved the movie, but the open endings still leaves me a little dissatisfied and I understand why someone wouldn't like the movie as a whole. I hope they make a sequel just to answer a few of this big questions.