In the year 2093, seventeen men and women
set off on spacecraft Prometheus to the one planetary system that science as
well as historical evidence suggests was the origin of mankind. In the
meantime, Earth gets struck by a veritable array of natural calamities, which changes
the mission of Prometheus to that of finding a new home for mankind. The craft makes
a safe landing at the destination planet – but, somehow, the exploratory
mission gets struck by tragedy. Not least of all owing to the undercurrents of
the real motives of the Weyland Corporation represented by the mission chief
Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) and by the actions of cyborg David (Michael
Fassbender) that suggest a certain lack of alignment. Will the mission
eventually be successful? Or will it get mired in in-fighting and external
attack-induced tragedy? Prometheus is well-produced and well-directed, but as
far as the genre goes, utterly lacks originality (think Sphere, The Deep, and
many many more). A man no less than Ridley Scott should have done a lot more
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