Prometheus – Movie Review

Prometheus – Movie Review

"I think they want us to come and find them."

That’s researcher Elizabeth Shaw’s conclusion when she and Charlie Holloway (her scientific and romantic partner) discover 35,000-year-old cave drawings of people surrounding a giant man pointing at six circles in the sky—drawings that match findings from
a multitude of other ancient civilizations.

The only question is who "they" are.

Shaw, who wears a cross signifying her faith, is determined to find out. And she comes to believe that the circles represent a star map that could unlock the mysteries of humanity’s creation.

Four years later, in 2093, Shaw, Holloway and the crew members of the exploration ship Prometheus have followed that map to the threshold of the answers they’re seeking. The trillion-dollar expedition to the moon called LV_223 has been funded by the recently
deceased Peter Weyland, former head of the conglomerate Weyland Corporation.

In theory, Weyland shared Shaw’s passion for unlocking creation’s conundrums. A holographic message to the crew taped before his death shows him pondering, "Where did we come from? What is our purpose? What happens when we die?"

But not everyone aboard is actually on board.

David, the brilliant, ageless and soulless android "son" of Peter Weyland, sometime serves the team’s mission … and sometimes serves his own. Meredith Vickers, the diamond-hard Weyland executive, lets everyone know she’s in charge and is more determined
to get home than to get truth: "I like to minimize risk," she says.

But minimizing risk when you’re half a billion miles out is a trickier proposition. On LV_223, the team discovers evidence of a civilized outpost beneath an enormous domed structure. The tunnel-infused labyrinth shrouds an ominous mystery: piles of giant,
space suit-clad bodies. Bodies that look almost human.

Shaw’s thrill that these dead aliens seem related to humanity is soon dampened by the chilling discovery that the weaponized biological agent they’ve left behind seems to have gotten the better of them …

… And it’s begun wreaking similarly nasty havoc on the crew of the Prometheus.

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Posted by Fahad Zafar on Jul 4 2012. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry