Prometheus asks loftier questions than it’s willing to answer, but it may just may be the best scifi-horror film since Alien.
At about the two-thirds mark in Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s unrelenting scifi-horror prequel to Alien, we are so inundated by disturbing visuals, so exhausted by the unraveling tension, so disoriented by quick-cuts to each character’s confrontation with the film’s endless terrors, that by the end we feel like we’re the ones who survived a trip to hell and back again. It’s dense and terrifying, and easily the best Alien film since, well, Alien.
