Space fiction or fact? We humans are determined to discover!

Rating: 6/10 (27 September 2012)

Yet again the augmentation of CGI stretches across our screens in Ridley Scott latest epic. As a modern audience we are continuously rapt by terrific landscapes and motion inputted by this technology but one could argue the story is pulverised by the visual. Here, I find myself slightly situated in the middle. Prometheus was enjoyable, gripping but I sat wandering if or not we have seen it all before. Sci-fi seems to struggle in the limelight when making comparative contrasts between that of those genres peaking at the top of the movie chart, but this film has excited many with its stimulating proposal of the sighting of the beginning of the human race. This may provoke many points of view or beliefs as many are still in denial of how the human race came into existence. The films' formula is rather simple but complex at the same time. There is a mission to space to typically discover but aside the alien attacks and survival tactics of the crew, we are invited to self-performing operations, tearing through abdominal tissue, stapling yourself back together again and having the ability to gallop around for the remainder of the film after consuming some local anaesthetic. We experience the wonders of space in a nutshell.
There are a few controversies, such as opinionated beliefs about how humans were created, many implausible behaviours by the crew who have a collective scientific intelligence ratio of zero and close proximity to the aliens we have seen before in the Alien franchise. As a prequel we expect certain similarities, but not an overriding amount that possesses too many parallels, therefore making basically bootlegging the original. There are however, many reasons to enjoy this film besides those highlighted above. Scott has brought exhilaration back to the usual lacklustre Sci-Fi genre, adding the thriller aspect and increasing tension with the feature of revealing a few unexpected panoramas. The cinematography is spectacular and Noomi Reece and Charlize Theron play their roles competently with much sophistication.