The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
Director: Ridley Scott
ALIEN (1979), had scarier and more "real" looking Alien than in this one (2017)?
Prometheus, the film left viewers with a lot to unpack and speculate on, and like that film it’s an ambiguous blockbuster with moments of greatness, but is let down by baffling character decisions and a rushed final act.
That is because humans by and large have wrought a world of utilitarian uselessness in both films. And the people with real depth and souls are the robots built to serve them. Indeed, one can draw a through-line from Ian Holm’s Ash in Alien to Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batty in Blade Runner to Michael Fassbender’s David in Prometheus. While the most recent of those three films is technically a prequel to Alien, it is also a bridge between the other two.