Ridley Scott back with his Alien stories .three decades back Scott directed Alien(1979) which was spectacular and opened the gates for alien-human different versions of movies in future..Prometheus is quite garnered the expectation of hard core alien fans and critics, which sure lives to the expectations with some spine chilling visuals and stunning screenplay.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Benedict Wong, Patrick Wilson
Directed by Ridley Scott ('Alien', 'Gladiator', 'American Gangster')
Written by Damon Lindelof, Jon Spaihts
Story
2089 two Archeologist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her boyfriend Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) find a painting which tells about the humans origin and who are behind it. TO find an Answer they travel to undislocsed planet in the space ship called Prometheus with Captain(Idris) and Weyland lady boss Vicker(Charliz Theron) with few crew members who are great in their professions. They all put indeep sleep for two years where all the activities of the spaceship is taken care by the David(FassBender) an Android Robot.
They reach the planet and all the crew members from sleep mode wakes up and gets into the meeting for the dicovering the human origin mission. Mission is with some cravings in the cave , they are here to for mission to investigate human's history and ancient civilization of mayans, mespotanians etc.. with this clue..they two archeologist believe that engineers who are behind humans origin stills lives in the planet and want to know the answers from them. They land and 2 teams goes to the big cave like thing in the Planet which is good for breathing...They find rare species which killed all the Engineers and have deadly plans.
In the process, David the android...acts away from the boss and does it on his own way..after some sacrifices they come to know the truth that engineers also discoverd new breed of Species and they brought to this planet which they killed them all and only one left..The lady boss wants to get back the ship to world..but the engineer is suddenly killed by the creature, David selfish act of poisoning the drink with Alein DNA kills Shaws boyfriend and even she was in the edge to give alien child birth....most of them are killed and Aliens wants to take over the world..it's the decison of the crew and captain to decide on it..return to world or save it by spaceship collapse?
Strengths
It is Ridley Scott treatment which slowly develops the sci-fi plot is the major attraction..the story and it way of unfolding, the characters attitude and development , Fascinating sci-fi story/scrennplay and gorgeous visuals...The Prometheus map, silicon storm, one Naomi self-scissarion, the space ship model and the cave like place, and location are breath taking ..though no kick ass action .the movie ensure thrilling entertainment..The photography is awesome with some punching and scintillating visulas supported by great music..sets the tempo of Alien freaky movie...Editing is racy especially in the first half and the ending is little scary and deeply surprising.
All the important cast Charlie, Idris etc.. have given a believable performances and to the credit Naomi has done a enjoyable show..She has done a tremendous job as Shaw..It is Michael Fassbender as David is memorable performance of the year 2012..he is there at his best as the Robot which has grey shades and positive vibe tooo..Ridley Scott finally arrives with the competant screenplay and unique from all Alien movies...
Weakness
The hardcore fans will enjoy it though the new comers may find hard to digest the movie and its history..The Aliens scenes remind you of his previous movie Alien(1979) though touted as prequel to this movie...Less hard core kick ass action is missing..
Movie Prometheus is sure set to rock box office which is sorely missing out because of bad and super hero movies...
Verdict: 6.5/10( 1.5 for Direction/ Screenplay, 1 for visuals, 1 for the photography, 1 for casting and performances, 1 for music , 1 for special effects)
Movie canvas punch: Prometheus..promising Sci-fi thriller
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