Review: Prometheus Is All Questions And No Answers
- May 7, 2017
- 2 min read
In 2012 Ridley Scott returned to the saga that he began. Not in a sequel to his much beloved Alien but instead a prequel, aiming to explain what happened before a ravaging creature slaughtered a crew of space truckers.
The starship Prometheus is enroute to an undiscovered planet, designation LV-223. Aboard is Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) a scientist intent on discovering what she believes to be the origin of humanity itself. Upon arrival on the planet they discover a number of large vessels, ones that dwarf their own. Something's been here before and whatever it is, it never left.
Prometheus managed to have to decent qualities. For one, it's first 40 minutes or so are genuinely interesting as the crew investigates the alien vessels and the various items they discover on board. The visuals are also excellent with both practical and digital effects being excellent. That's where then praise ends. Everything else is so incredibly underdone or poorly executed that it beggars belief that this movie came from the same mind that began it all.
The characters are at the low end of the intelligence scale, even more so when you remember that these are literally intergalactic scientists, experts in their fields, experts who remove their helmets on alien worlds and bring with them a medical facility that can operate on only men when three of the crew are women. That's not to mention the number of occurrences without an explanation, not even an attempt.
Prometheus is a disappointing excuse for a movie, one with so little quality that it feels more like a knock off than a legitimate entry into one of the longest running sci-fi franchises of all time. Do yourself a favour and avoid this one more than you'd avoid an angry xenomorph.
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