Prometheus is the chilling prequel to the science fiction horror film Alien created by director Ridley Scott. The movie contains an all-star cast including Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. The project was shot entirely with 3-D cameras. The use of brilliant special effects and noteworthy acting are what make Prometheus an exemplary film.
The film opens with a human-like alien drinking some sort of liquid on a foreign planet that causes his body to deteriorate. The next scene shows a group of scientists who are doing research in mountain tops and caves. Doctor Elizabeth Shaw and her boyfriend, and fellow archeologist, Charlie Holloway discover a star map that starts them on a journey to a distant moon LV-223. The expensive exoplanet expedition aboard the scientific space ship Prometheus is funded by the deceased CEO of Weyland Corporation, Peter Weyland. Their task, along with the crew of the ship, including an emotionless android named David, is to gather evidence of the human race’s makers called engineers. What starts off as a simple, peaceful mission quickly escalates into full blown chaos which no one aboard could have ever predicted.
Breathtaking and at times horrifying visual effects are used throughout Prometheus. The effects in the movie are quite stunning. The whole movie gives you a sort of pristine clean futuristic feel. The spaceship is beautifully crafted along with all of the gear and vehicles during the course of the movie. It gave me a craving of a similar future for us. When members of the crew are attacked by the alien creatures of the planet, you really get the feeling of a horrible death. The monsters are so visually mastered that you cringe in your seat at the thought of one of the things touching you, never mind the helpless scientists.
The makers of this film could not have picked a better cast. Noomi Rapace captures the typical damsel in distress to a T. She makes it so that the audience cares just enough to feel bad for her without despising her character. However, the real award goes to Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender. Theron plays Meredith Vickers, a Weyland Corporation employee, who acts as a supervisor on the trip. Scary is not an adequate word to describe her role in this movie. She is intimidating and definitley captures the whole pawn in a bigger picture with her own ill placed agenda. Michael Fassbender is fantastic as David the android who supposedly has no emotions. The lack of his character's emotion is what makes him so frightening.
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