Review of Prometheus (2012) by Tristan M — 21 Sep 2015

I've recently just rewatched the Alien movies, and from what I know about the trilogy, this movie has little to do with it. Instead of being a movie about the aliens we know and love, it's about a teams search for their maker, or god.

What they find is small aliens snakes, dead bodies, and old structures. Eventually they do find one remaining 'Engineer' as they call the makers, which is basically a large hairless version of a human who is all white and has an unexplained hate for the humans they created.

There is also a infinite numbers of bottles containing a black goo that infects the humans, and for whatever reason turns one of them into, for a lack of a better name, a zombie. Why there's a zombie in the movie makes no sense to me, and has no belonging.

The crew of the ship are slowly killed from various causes, aliens, goo, and the zombie guy who is killed. In the end everyone ends up dead except for Shaw, who ends up with David in a engineers ship.

She says she want to continue the search for answers and the engineers, even though she could return home and she will problably be killed eventually. I think the film is supposed to answer questions of the original movies and tell the story of how it began.

But to me it only makes more questions, and adds confusion that I didn't have in the first place. It has basic characters covering every role in a ship, who are all pretty mindless, are not afraid of alien snakes but are very afraid of dead bodies, a lot of stuff simply dosen't make sense.

And finally at the end, we get our only scene containing one of the original aliens. And it comes out of the stomach of the dead engineer, who was killed by a alien squid thing, the squid which somehow just died.

And the alien we have waited so long to see does nothing but scream before the credits begin. It dosen't even look as good as the original alien. Overall this movie was disappointing, missing some important features of the original trilogy.

Its not that it looks bad, as in that respect its quite impressive, but the story makes no sense, and theres so much random stuff that dosent belong, isn't explained, and just adds confusion, that it ruins it overall.

Plus it's not on LV426 so it's not the same ship after all that starts the Alien franchise, so it's not helpful there either. It try's to answer questions we didn't have, and instead creates more of them! Hopfully Prometheus 2 will blend the two together more.