Prometheus where Aliens are Hatched.

A review of the movie Prometheus by Kenneth Alexander Wright Vazquez

It doesn't take long for PROMETHEUS to quickly take the viewer back to the cinematic universe and genre defining narrative that director Ridley Scott help create. Immediately after the film opens it is quite clear that this movie is a return to norm and to science fiction with intellect.

At 74 years old Ridley Scott remains on top form and the same visionary who way back in 1979 delivered the sci fi/horror epic ALIEN, the film to which PROMETHEUS is the precursor to. From the striking landscape of a far off world to a pale skinned being and the sterile yet sophisticated interior of a state of the art star ship to the dark and damp dungeon like corridors of an ancient structure, the visuals for this prequel are the best concocted by Scott since the original.

With a solid cast which includes Noomy Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Michael Fassbender (X Men First Class, Shame), Guy Pearce (Memento, LA Confidential), Idris Elba (Luther, Thor) and Charlize Theron (Monster, Snow White and The Huntsman), Scott has managed to weave together a group actors and roles which resonate with the first film.

Michael Fassbender delivers the most unnervingly cold an detached yet friendly and polite portrayal as an artificial man with secrets. Noomy Rapace is a beauty to look at and a powerfully compelling woman while Charlize Theron is as stoic and strong as ever. Idris Elba is the trucker in space type and Guy Pearce playing Mr Weiland, a name so firmly steeped in the Alien series, was a pleasant surprise.

What's an Alien movie without some graphic and good old bloody violence of which there's quite a bit. Exploding heads, melted faces, broken bones, high tech and messy surgeries, decapitations, and a climactic chest bursting moment which gives birth to the future of the franchise.

Taking a page from 'Chariot of The Gods' and 'Ancient Aliens' to explore the origins of mankind and of the iconic Alien creatures is a struck of genius. A section of the ending felt anti climactic but it doesn't hurt the experience.

This film is far from small but as David the android says "big things have small beginnings" and PROMETHEUS is the beginning of it all...