Great re-opening of an old franchise. Superb.

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2013)

You'd think Alien would have run it's course as a three time film franchise. It's been since 1979 since the first Alien popped out of a stomach and into a man's birthday cake, and today we still have acid blood that eats through helmets, and snake-like creatures that dominate men and seem to like esophegii.
But what we do not have in this film is cheesy effects and off-screen suspense as style. We have instead the great visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott, author of Bladerunner and Gladiator, both stories having different epic proportions. He was the perfect choice to bring this story line back to life, and as he's said in an interview, "re-open that book".
Story is oftentimes everything, but here in Prometheus, it is story and look and feel, just as cinema should be. Film is show, and not tell. The showing does the telling, and we are offered a great feast of first rate special effects, practical sets mixed with digital artistry, and wonderfully orchestrated mise-en-scene. That would have been Roger Ebert's vernacular. But what would Gene Siskel then say? "Basically, for a scary movie, it's beautiful."
As for myth, Prometheus was a progenitor, Greek mythology, making man from clay, so it's appropriate to show the self-sacrifice of an "Engineer", allowing his own genes to be utterly destroyed in order to populate a virgin planet with the genetic makeup of a god. Am I giving away too much? More....
For my full review: http://xyvector.blogspot.com/2013/06/prometheus-2012-ridley-scott- charlize.html