Prometheus

Prometheus


Rating 5 out of 10

I am a huge fan of the first Alien movie by Prometheus director Ridley Scott.  In my book it's a classic as is Aliens.  We don't have to talk about three and four.  Scott has swore to high heaven Prometheus is not a prequel to Alien and after viewing I'd say he's probably right.  But he threw in enough Alien things and made it similar enough to get the fans into the theater seats.  Prometheus definitely does not explain Alien.  In fact it goes two hours without explaining much of anything.  It leaves you with more questions than answers.

The movie starts with our star Elizabeth Shaw (played all by Noomi Rapace- the original and best Girl with Dragon Tattoo) and her partner finding paintings on a wall somewhere from cave man days that match paintings other other walls around the world that somehow proves there is another planet way out there that has beings that created humans on Earth.  Hollywood always seems to go out of their way to try to prove there is no God and this movie bends over backward trying.

When a Ted Turner type old guy on his death bed funds this zillion dollar trip to that planet he is hoping since these beings created us they can show him how to live forever.  Problem is when they get to the planet things are not as he hoped.  Hard to say much more than that without giving spoilers.  Things go bad right away.  Not sure I get the "if we leave now there may not be an Earth to go back to" line in the movie.  That along with about a hundred others.

Still the movie is visually fun to look at (even in the 2D I saw) and acting is very good.  Charlize Theron shows us for the second time this month she can be very good in an average movie (looks good too).  Michael Fassbender (how did Hollywood not get him to change his name?) is great as the robot droid guy that it seems will be common thing in 75 short years.

It's after you leave the theater and try to make sense of what you just saw when the problems start.  My rating dropped 1.5 points from yesterday.  If this movie looks like something you want to see I'd recommend a theater viewing rather than small screen dvd.  It's worth a watch just set the bar lower than I did.

If you have seen it and would like to discuss I'd love to hear from you.  You can email me or add comments in the section here.