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 Prometheus
The movie will leave your mouth agape for its entire runtime, first with its majestic exploration of an alien planet and conjectures on the origins of the human race, second with its gross-out body horror that leaves no spilled gut to the imagination. Thin characters feel more like pawns in Scott's sci-fi prequel, but stunning visuals, shocking turns and grand questions more than make up for the shallow ensemble. Based on their discovery of a series of cave drawings all sharing a similar painted design, Elizabeth (Naomi Rapace) and Charlie (Logan Marshall-Green) are recruited by Weyland to head a mission to another planet. Along for the journey are Vickers (Charlize Theron), the ruthless Weyland proxy, Janek (Idris Elba) a blue collar captain, a slew of faceless scientists, and David (Michael Fassbender), HAL 9000-esque resident android who awakens the crew of spaceship Prometheus when they arrive to their destination. Immediately upon descent there's a discovery: a giant mound that's anything but natural. The crew immediately prepares to scope out the scene. What they discover are the awe-inspiring creations of another race. What they bring back to the ship is what they realise may kill their own. The first half of Prometheus could be easily mistaken for Steven Spielberg's Alien, a sense of wonder glowing from every frame.
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