Good prequel to Alien franchise

Rating: 8/10 (5 September 2014)

I like Prometheus because it stands on its own as a good Science Fiction Movie while serving as a pseudo prequel to the Aliens movies it is independent enough to be an independent story but has enough hooks to make one pickup on things that are definite ties to the Alien story and then some that are ambiguous ties. Those unknown elements are what makes me like the writing the most as it makes me want a series of these movies to more closely tie the story to the origin of the Engineers, purpose in creating the species at the heart of alien and give us that historical link to a more current history that distant future portrayed in both this movie and then Alien. There were questions, this movie served to fill in some but add even more, more tangible ones while at the same time being entertaining all in and of itself. So a great combination of entertainment standing alone with a awakened interest in the links to ourselves, aliens, robotics. and the whole interest so covert bot obvious in Alena franchise. I hear there will be another and am interested if the path of chasing the "Engineers" is followed or the development of the Alien and their purpose, and hopefully both. Though I fear chasing the Engineer path will lead to disappointment as it leads to infinite complexity and God. Yet I enjoyed Prometheus more on subsequent viewings than I did the first as subtle points I missed were caught. I hope future movies are still good stand alone stories while further revealing answers and now sowing more questions for the sake of making more movies. There is obviously a tie between our own creation and that of the alien species, or at least tie in our history. It will be fun to watch!!!