Another dark film with little new adventure rehash.

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2014)

*Spoiler/plot- Prometheus, 2012. Set in 2093 and takes place in the same universe as the Ridley Scott, 'Alien' movies. A group of explorers, including some archaeologists, are on an "undisclosed" mission that is funded by a huge corporate entity for a trillion dollars. Then the explorers arrive at a planet millions of miles away from Earth. The team spot what they believe to be signs of an advanced civilization with a huge spacecraft. They go into the craft to investigate and find more than just signs, they find conclusive evidence with life, language, and instruments. But some of the Weyland corporate leaders on board have an ulterior motive for being there. They believe that this is where the human race actually came from. Things soon turn from excitement to survival once inside their discovery and alien spacecraft.
*Special Stars- Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron. DIR: Ridley Scott
*Theme- If We're designed by the alien 'engineers', but who designed them?
*Trivia/location/goofs- Color. As mentioned in the film, the original Prometheus was a character from Greek mythology. He was a Titan (an immortal older god), who gave the gift of fire to human beings. Prometheus was punished for this by being bound to a rock in Hades (the Greek underworld), where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to feed on his liver, only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day. In some stories, Prometheus is freed at last by the hero Heracles (Hercules). Among the ancient Greeks, Prometheus was venerated as a deity. Prometheus may derive from the Greek for "forethinker", or the Proto-Indo-European for"thief", Prometheus also tricked the gods, which is of relevance to this film. Charlize Theron found herself struggling during her action scenes due to her smoking habit, particularly the segments that required her to run through sand in boots weighing 30 pounds. The "beginning of time" sequence that opens the film was shot in Iceland. The whole shoot took two weeks to complete. Was originally conceived as a prequel to Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), but Scott announced his decision to turn it into an original film with Noomi Rapace (who was already set to star) still in the cast as one of five main characters. Some time later it was confirmed that while the movie would take place in the same universe as Alien and greatly reference that movie, it would mostly be an original movie and not a direct prequel.
*Emotion- Another dark film with little adventure or action in it. The plot has so many 'plot holes' in it due to the terrible sound levels than are inconsistent so as to leave some important plot point dialog unheard. The viewer is frustrated early in the film for the plot jumping decades to push the story along. The 2080 spacesuits in this film seems to be more fragile and dangerous for the wearers. They break easier than the old Apollo NASA suits which protected the astronauts.
*Based on- Ridley Scott 'Alein' movies and their franchise.