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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Prometheus
2012
***
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, Rafe Spall, Sean Harris

21st century archaelogists draw a connection between cave paintings in Scotland and the ancient forefathers in a different star system. A few years later a group of scientists arrive on the distant moon LV-223 to meet their makers, in more senses than one. Ridley Scott returns to the world of Alien with this prequel/reboot, which is predictably not up to the standard of his brilliant breakthrough 33 years earlier. He also references another one of his classics, Blade Runner, with the android character David who longs to be human yet feels superior to them. The film is strongly acted, beautifully designed and visually striking, as expected, and it has a consistently oppressive atmosphere. The story, however, gets progressively stupider as the film goes on, and by the end you can't tell this one apart from all the other Alien sequels and rip-offs.