Ridley Scott has created an immersive, incredible looking film full of great ideas about creation, destruction, faith and mankind. Starting off with some impressive landscape shots, it moves to a dark, vast and intricate world set to astonish. Holographic recordings, atmospheric devastation and some visually original images grace the screen. When Scott, as inevitably expected, starts to pick off the crew, the energy is ramped up and some sick shit kicks off; there are a few excellently grotesque moments.
Noomi Rapace plays a strong and focused scientist yet her performance is tinged with tenderness making her an endearing presence. Idris Elba is on fine form as the self-assured captain and Charlize Theron plays her cold role with class but the character is slightly underdeveloped. Michael Fassbender’s David does not disappoint, in fact, every scene he appears in is pure joy. He is menacing, comical and spot on as a synthetic soulless son of a bitch.
On the surface Prometheus was a blast and Fassbender was fantastic but it definitely had some engine problems. Unfortunately some of the ideas Scott touches on do not get fully explored.
There are some tacked on scenes that feel out of place and unnecessary but for the most part the sinister mood and sets are engrossing.
Prometheus was never going to live up to the hype surrounding it, or reach the same heights of Alien, but this is a grand, ambitious sci-fi blockbuster.
I am going back for more on Friday…
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