A strange, disjointed prequel to Alien

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2017)

The first prequel to the alien franchise brings us back to the origins of the xenomorph and explains the figure and ship spotted in the first and second film. We are introduced to the "Engineers" as one of them drinks a black liquid and disintegrates into a waterfall. Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) discovers ancient artifacts with her fellow researcher Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green). Funded by Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), the researchers sent out on the Prometheus to explore the planet where the artifacts led. Manning the ship why the crew sleeps is David (Michael Fassbender), an android with his own feelings and opinions.
The Prometheus is captained by Janek (Idris Elba) but the mission is run by Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) who clash at what to do but also have sexual tension. The group finds a structure on the planet and immediately explores it where they find one of the dead Engineers and strange egg-like vases. They bag the head of the Engineer and head back to the ship before a storm hits but two researchers Fifield (Sean Harris) and Millburn (Rafe Spall) are left behind and lost. Dr. Shaw needs to be rescued by David in the storm to save the head, which they then experiment on to make explode. Testing the DNA, they find it matches human DNA. David confers with a sleeping Weyland and puts the black substance in a drink for Charlie.
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