Prometheus
June 8, 2012 in theaters
January 1, 2024 on Hulu
A team of scientists follows a star map found among the world's ancient civilizations to a distant world, hoping to discover humanity's origins — and instead finds something far more terrifying. Ridley Scott's visually stunning prequel explores the creation of the Xenomorph species.
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"Big things have small beginnings."
-- David
DID YOU KNOW?
Ridley Scott returned to the franchise after 33 years. He originally passed on directing Alien sequels.
THE VERDICT
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Ridley Scott's return to the franchise is a film of grand ideas and uneven execution — the Lovecraftian mythology of ancient engineers and the origins of humanity offers rich material that the narrative never quite organizes into a coherent argument. The production design and visual ambition are exceptional, and Fassbender's David is one of the more compelling characters the franchise has produced. What it reaches for is more interesting than what it achieves, which is both its appeal and its frustration.
PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
Where this fits in the larger story
Prometheus sits at the earliest point in the Alien timeline, long before the Nostromo encounter. It follows humanity's search for its origins into territory shaped by the Engineers, android experimentation, and dangerous biological design. Its placement helps fans understand the deeper mythology behind Weyland's ambitions and the franchise's larger questions about creation, control, and the cost of reaching too far.
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