Prometheus (film review)


Directed by : Ridley Scott ||
Starring : Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron ||
Release date : June 1, 2012 (United Kingdom) ||
Running time : 124 minutes ||
Genre: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller ||
Country : United States ||
Language : English ||

The movie is trying to tell about how human’s explore in the future. In the year 2093, some scientists explore the universe using a spaceship named “Prometheus” to find the other sign of mankind. In their first arrival, they find a sign that showing there’s another galaxy. And that sign is also related or has similarity with the other signs that they’ve found before. One of the scientist, Elizabeth really sure that those are a kind of invitation for them to find the answer of creation of human being.

Together as a team, they go and landing in a planet that is quite similar as earth but the air contains too much carbon dioxide so they have to wear an outer space suit. They find then explore a place that likely a building. Inside, he oxygen is quite good, so they could take of the helmet. After exploring for a while, they got the hologram that direct them into a cut head of something. But two of the team go away because they have different thought and couldn’t accept this exploration. While the team go back to Prometheus, these two people, Millburn and Fifield, got lost inside this building and because of the electrical storm, they have to stay inside. But then unfortunately, Millburn got bitten by a snake-like and Fifield got sprayed of a corrosive dark liquid that melt his helmet.

In Prometheus, David, an android robot, after he take a tube of dark liquid from the building, then he take some liquid and put it into Holloway’s drink. Holloway is one of the scientist also, and at the night he have sex with Elizabeth. But before that, Elizabeth and Ford already find out that the DNA of the head of outer space creature they found from the building is totally match as mankind.

The next day when the team get down and go back to the building, they found the corps of Millburn and Fifield. When they want to carry them to Prometheus, suddenly Holloway turn into a very bad condition and changed to be like uhhm.. almost like alien. But then he realize and he ask Meredith Vickers, the leader of Prometheus to kill him. And then, Holloway died of the fire. Few days later, David know that Elizabeth is pregnant. She want to abort the baby but David doesn’t allow her. Then finally she can get rid off the embryo and left it in the operating room. From the outside, Fifield come back, alive, as a monster, that also kills some of the teammate before finally he’s killed.

David, Vickers, Elizabeth, Ford, Elizabeth and the old Peter Weyland, the billionaire founder and CEO of this mission, go back to the building as David has explored before and show them the creation likely a technology by some creation -that likely a human- of this planet. Then David wake one of the creations -that likely humans- up, as Weyland want to know the secret of creating a human. He asks the way to make him immortal as he sure that those are the ones who create human surely the know how to destroy them and how to make them immortal. But the things going in a different way than what they’ve expected.

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