Ridley Scott, the director of blade runner, Alien, Thelma & Louise, and the Gladiator has discovered the principle that grandeur can be enough in itself to produce a well-received EPIC. Prometheus represents this in all its vastness and beauty. The film takes the viewer on a whirlwind adventure through the universe to a single planet to find “The Engineers” who are the creators of the human race. The films main theme is obvious – Where do we come from, and why? The crew of the Prometheus is dropped off right into a world of drama, landing on a distant planet with hopes of literally meeting their makers. Prometheus is at its best when merely teasing the horrors to come – the gigantic head looming over an array of suspiciously egg-like pods, bugs that literally get under your skin, odd ooze, and that quintessential Alien harbinger of doom.
The film in all its epicenes has enough holes in it to sink the titanic. In the final third Prometheus focuses all of its energy into crossing the finish line without touching on the mysteries that were revealed in the first two thirds, which made the movie so fascinating. Odds and ends don’t match up and by the end you feel as if you’ve been duped. The conclusion leaves an underwhelming feeling based on the grandiose questions that the film is based upon. Even so the spectacle of so many iconic scenes makes Prometheus worth watching