Alienated

“Prometheus” is a prequel, or perhaps pseudo-prequel, to the films of the Alien franchise. If you belong to the 0.01% of the population who loved “Alien” for its philosophical qualities, you might find the last 20 minutes or so of “Prometheus” interesting. If you belong to the 99.99% who relished Ridley Scott's sense of horror, you might get away a wee bit disappointed…

We (the 0.01% we) have waited a long time, decades actually, for a response to the question “where did the extraterrestrial astronauts with big snouts come from?” It was great, I suppose, to finally get an answer to that question. I think.

What a pity the rest of “Prometheus” sucks, with Noomi Rapace and the other actors coming into their own only at the last moment. Most of the time, they come across as a bunch of stupid-looking amateurs, some of them with bad accents…

I will give this Alien fan movie three stars, but only because of the dramatic finale. Otherwise, it really only deserves two. It made me feel, well, alienated...