Prometheus: Everything Has a Beginning...Ours Is Not What Is Seems

Over the weekend I had the privilege of going to the cinema to see what I hoped would be a good movie. And I was not disappointed. Prometheus is a sort of a prelude to Alien, the 1980s film most young people don't even think about anymore, directed by Ridley Scott.

The plot is this: In the near future, two scientist have made a discovery that the ancient cultures on Earth, such as the Mayans and the Mesopotamians, all have something in common. They each seemed to be worshipping the same stars in the sky and what make that so interesting is that these cultures are generations apart and the stars they worship are too far away for the human eye to see.

So an expedition is on way and a crew is assembled to go on the space ship Prometheus to find out where mankind came from and who were these ancient, distant cultures worshipping. In two years, the ship has landed on this planet and the crew has made an unimaginable discovery, which probably should have never been discovered in the first place because it seems humanity's destroyer is living there and our makers weren't such lovely parents. They're battling to survive on this planet they can't even breathe on and you have twist and turns at every corner as this scientist tries to piece together what happened to the people that lived here, who were a more superior race than ours and suddenly just died (or to be more precise, were killed), and why did they abandon us.

One of two scenes that captured my mind is that there's this robot there and he asks one of the scientists, Dr. Holloway, why he thinks man created him and the doctor says because we could. And there's also a scene where the two scientists are in their room (they have a relationship of sorts) and Dr. Holloway asks Elizabeth Shaw why she still wears her cross and she tells him “They created us but what created them.” These are the type of things that makes a person think and I liked that about the movie because it's not just babbling words on a script. It's smart and interesting.

The movie was fantastic. It was two hours long but quite frankly I didn't care about the length because I was so caught up in the plot and the characters. They had a great cast of actors, such as Micheal Fassbender who played David, a robot who's scheming against the crew, Noomi Rapace who just got out of Snow White and the Huntsman, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logon Marshal-Green and a lot more. Granted, I was confused about how this all ties into the Alien series, being a prequel and all, but I guess the end of the movie helped a little. I guess Prometheus was headed toward its own destination and the end sort of left me hanging, almost as if teasing me about their being more to the story, and I found myself hoping there was.

The script was very well thought out and the special effects were amazing. I felt as if this planet was real and the ship was extremely detailed and one could tell that the writers and Ridley Scott really took their time with casting, the story line and effects. What I really liked about though is that the effects didn't over power the story they were trying to tell us. It was interesting and it kept me entertained and I felt as if I was trying to solve this mystery with the characters also. I give it a 9 out of 10.