I quite enjoyed Prometheus, even though I have never seen any other of the Alien films in there entirety. This film is a sort of lose prequel to the first Alien movie, it kinda sorta indicates where the Aliens in the later films came from. That being said its a perfectly self-contained piece of work. The story concerns the space ship Prometheus, on a privately funded expedition looking for the source of human life on earth, which the films protagonist Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) has determined was seeded on our planet by an alien civilization. It takes several years in suspended animation to reach the planet from which the source of man supposedly derived, during that time the Prometheus is run by an android named David (Michael Fassbender) whose a big fan of Lawrence of Arabia, and in fact looks a good bit like a young Peter O'Toole.
Anyway when they get to the planet they find some ruins, they explore them, and in coarse of time crew members start getting killed. It turns out of course that David has a secret ulterior mission that endangers the crew. The film doesn't always make the most sense but it kept my interest throughout. I liked the look and the feel of the thing, the alien world is sufficently alien, and the film has something of a 2001: A Space Odyssey vibe especially early on. Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce are in this, but its Fassbender and Rapace's film. I saw it in 3D but it doesn't really need it. I thought it was a good, slightly smarter then usual thriller. I'd say worth seeing.
Verdict: Good
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