[Movie] Prometheus - Page 25

So the film begins with us seeing some outrageously muscular humanoid being drinking some weird shit (A ship in the background is also seen to be leaving for some reason, suggesting he's the last one left). He seems to fall apart, and his DNA is seen to be breaking apart. He falls into a waterfall, where his DNA seems to begin to reassemble itself, which seems to imply that he killed himself to create humanity.

Then we go to 2089, where the two archaeologists Shaw (played by Noomi Rapace) and Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) find some cave painting showing a tall man pointing at a star cluster or whatever. We are also told that the two are together, as they hold hands.

2093 is next as the ship is apparently at its destination. The crew is awoken by the ship's android David (played by the amazing Michael Fassbender)Afterwards comes the mission brief (WHY THE FUCK WOULDN'T YOU INFORM THE CREW OF ITS MISSION BEFORE THEY GO TO PROBABLE DEATHS ON A PREVIOUSLY UNEXPLORED PLANET). Apparently the painting S&H found on Earth is one of many and this leads them to this place, where the ship Prometheus is in orbit. They call the tall people The Engineers, because Shaw believes that "they engineered us" without any proof to that conclusion. Meredith Vickers (wasted on Charlize Theron, who deserves better than what the film's writers gave her) basically tells the characters to behave and she's in charge. Oh yeah, we get Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) who is apparently dead as of the movie, due to old age.

Anyway, after landing the damn ship, the characters decide to rush into a huge alien building complex and explore it, despite the pilot's notion that they should probably hang the fuck on as night is approaching. The pilot Janek is played by Idris Elba, who gives a good performance as well, but in an awfully written role.

So the scientists explore the complex and find one of the Engineers, who had been decapitated by a door. There's a ton of ampoules or whatever that starts leaking some weird black liquid. Also there's a huge sculpture of a humanoid head in there. Throw-away characters Milburn and Fifield decide to go back to the ship because Fifield throws a fit since NO ONE BESIDES HIM CARES ABOUT ROCKS (fuck man, why the hell are you on this expedition?) and Milburn just goes with him because the script says he has to die in a couple of minutes.

Everyone leaves (they make sure to bring the Engineer head), except for F&M who are lost in the cave AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT CALLING JANEK TO LET THEM KNOW THE DAMN WAY OUT. When they do realise that they should contact him, Janek is away to bang Miss Wickers. Obviously they die, since the botanist decides to touch a serpent-like creature for no other reason that he's supposed to be killed there and then. Fifield gets his helmet corroded and faceplants into the weird liquid, while the serpent-thing makes it's way into Milburn's suit and down his throat. End scene.

We were earlier shown that David brought along an ampoule from the alien complex, and he's later shown studying it. He opens it up, revealing a few vials with black liquid, presumably the same that we've already seen. He intentionally infects Holloway with the liquid. Also, we're shown Shaw and some medical lady researching the Engineer head, which promptly explodes as they zap it for some reason I can't remember. Shaw and Holloway have sex, because that's what couples do.

Holloway is shown to be suffering from fever and very small mutations, primarily his eyes, from the dark liquid. They search the complex for F&M, only finding M, from who one of those serpent-things pop out for a short scare. David goes off on his own and finds an Engineer in stasis as well as some sort of star map highlighting Earth. Holloway's infection grows rampant (in a very silly scene, he asks Shaw (WHO IS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST BY THE WAY) about his infection (THE MEDICAL LADY IS IN THE SAME ROOM, BUT HE ASKS THE ARCHAEOLOGIST BECAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW THAT SHAW IS A PERFECT WOMAN, AND DID I MENTION THAT SHE'S CHRISTIAN? SYMBOLISM AHOY)). According to Shaw, it's bad (why wouldn't they get a second opinion what the fuck) and they rush back to the ship. Holloway is shown to be slowly dying from the liquid (looks like the Engineer in the beginning of the film, only slower) and Vicker emerges from nowhere really to do something that she should have instructed someone else to do, which is burn him the fuck up to present Shaw with a sad situation to overcome.

David scans Shaw to reveal that she is pregnant, despite us learning earlier that this is impossible. David hints to there being something quite horrible inside her and then sedates her. She later wakes up, runs away into a surgery machine of some sort, and has it perform surgery on her, in a pretty sick scene. The machine pulls out some octopus-like creature, which she promptly escapes from as it comes to life. She runs into some doctors and lo and behold it's Peter Weyland who is in fact not dead. Funnyli enough no one gives a shit that Shaw is basically held together by stitches and is bleeding all over the fucking floor. Weyland and company decide to go meet the Engineer, as Shaw tags along.

Fifield returns, souped up on the black goo to fuck shit up. He kills some extras before being killed by Janek, who later suggests that this planet is just a base for the Engineers to make bioweapons, but they fucked up and got killed. Weyland and co. finds the Engineer and brings him back to life. David speaks to it and promptly gets decapitated by the apparently hostile Engineer, who proceeds to try to kill everyone in sight. Shaw escapes and the Engineer sits into a chair. Janek gets an idea and finds out that the building is actually a ship. The Engineer starts the ship and starts to ascend, just as Prometheus is about to leave. Shaw talks Janek into making a suicide run on the ship (she's convinced that the Engineers will try to wipe out humanity), and he complies. He gives Vicker a chance to get off the ship, which she does. She crashes on the planet while Prometheus collides with the Engineer vessel, which crashes on the planet. Vicker and Shaw rund from the Engineer vessel which squashes Vicker because the writers didn't know what the fuck to do with her. Shaw is the last human standing. What a surprise.

Shaw gets chased by the Engineer, but opens up the surgery room, which still holds the octopus being from earlier. It's grown a lot since last and overpowers the Engineer as Shaw runs away (huge plot hole regarding her oxygen supply which is not mentioned because hurr. The Octopus thing is likely the first evolution of the facehuggers, seeing as it fed a tube into the Engineers mouth and then just clung to him (in this case, it just lay on him). David contacts Shaw, and tells her that he can probably fly another Engineer vessel, which conveniently is lying around. They fly off with Shaw intending to find out why the Engineers decided to wipe out humanity.

In the end, the Engineer is seen to be in pain, and something emerges from his stomach. It's an Alien in an early state (no tail, no double mouth). End film and end rant.

Although I might seem negative, I enjoyed the film and the actors' performances, but was angered by the dreadful writing. It's a good film with some bad parts, not the other way around.