A great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2012)

First of all i loved the original Alien and Aliens films, both classics. Now ever since i heard about Prometheus i really wanted to see it. I did, last night, and what do i think about it? The film takes a long time to get into gear, and its at those points i was thinking to myself ''shall i leave the cinema'', because it was getting tiresome. And at those points, i think Ridley Scott knew himself that viewers would be getting tired at about halfway through the film, i noticed many references, about this feeling in the movie itself, about ''when is it going to start'', ''is this it?'' and ''how small beginnings have large endings'', and it was around this time that the second half of the movie starts, the exiting parts where things are beginning to take shape. I wont go into too much detail about the second half of the movie, because one needs to see the slow half first, to understand the second part. What was wrong with this movie, i have read the same allegations and i have to agree, their was little character depth. Which was a GREAT GREAT SHAME. The first two movies, where all about character, Aliens the crew was very likable, and you could resonate with them easily. The interaction between the crew was natural, gritty and real, and thats what made it take you in. In Prometheus it needed two or three shots of the crew joking, playing around, it also needed to define those people on the ship so viewers could straight away understand their role and relationships, they failed to do that. It would have taken one scene to establish that connection, the crew joking, laughing, questioning their journey, well defined characters. It was down to this lack of character definition that made the first half of the film less interesting then it could have been. The scene in Aliens, where the crew are on the ship, waking up, eating, joking was absolutely needed and that what missing in Prometheus, two or three scenes of true humor and connection, in the first half to really make the viewer connect with the people. Having said that, i think Scott was going for a slightly underwhelming opening first half, to highlight the the normalcy of the ship going to such a place at such a distance in contrast to the significant events outside of their control. A small insignificant crew, going to find the answers of life from the Gods, and finding out something they did not expect. I think at the end of the movie, it worked really well. Its really hard to not make aliens into a corny movie, because the subject matter is corny, the first two movies got away with it, because it was a new fresh way of doing it, but after several AvP spin offs, the Alien concept had been diluted to almost comical status. And this movie addresses those issue with style, detail and a sense of reality, which i think gives the whole trilogy a sense of greater integrity. The sequel to this is the crucial part, to link the Prometheus with Alien and ALiens, and i think Prometheus has done an excellent job in making us want to watch the second installment. It has breathed life into the Alien trilogy and i think it maybe one of the greatest trilogies ever made, Prometheus 8/10, Alien 9/10, Aliens 10/10.