Prometheus - A Review
What is it about Prometheus that makes it so quixotic? It seems Ridley Scott has set out to create a future landscape that is indistinguishable from reality itself. Hello, my name is David... Well actually its not really, but for a moment there I was absorbed by the extraordinary performance that Michael Fassbender portrays of the 8th generatoin Android of Wayland industries. I've just got home from this fastidious feat of film and my mind is whirling with impressions, the first of which is the most basic. I liked it. It was certainly no Alien, but then was it ever meant to be? While incorporating elements of the classic Space Horror that Ridley helped to define, this is a more thoughtful film. Rather than trapping a bunch of random characters together in a tight space to be systematically and cheaply hunted down by a vicious blood thirsty thing with two mouths, Prometheus takes time to introduce an actual story with a history and characters who have deep motives for what they ...