A thoughtful prequel

Rating: 9/10 (7 July 2013)

This was at least as good as Alien and it was visually more compelling. The story line was obvious to anyone who had seen Alien and all the more enjoyable because of it's predictability. Every generation should have it's own version of Alien, and I feel that this version was perfectly suited to the present generation. This film had really excellent CGI and it attempted, largely successfully in my opinion, to put the human experience into a specific perspective. That is to say, where did we originate and what might be the consequences of our trying to find out. Ridley Scott managed to include a religious perspective effectively without becoming mawkish or overbearing. This film was easy to watch, exciting, and sufficiently suspenseful to keep my attention.