Prometheus

"The search for our beginning could lead to our end."

2012 2h 4m EN

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★6.6TMDB · 13,702

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A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

“The search for our beginning could lead to our end.”

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Cast

Noomi Rapace
Elizabeth Shaw
Michael Fassbender
David
Charlize Theron
Meredith Vickers
Idris Elba
Janek
Guy Pearce
Peter Weyland
Logan Marshall-Green
Charlie Holloway
Sean Harris
Fifield
Rafe Spall
Millburn

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof
Languages: Gaelic, English
Countries: United States of America, United Kingdom

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MONEY

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$130M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.1× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 14 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Gaelic, English.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United States of America, United Kingdom.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Prometheus Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Ridley Scott, shot by Dariusz Wolski. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Marc Streitenfeld. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Ridley Scott directs. Dariusz Wolski behind the camera. Marc Streitenfeld scores. Pietro Scalia cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America, United Kingdom. Dialogue in Gaelic, English.

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1$130M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 3.1× over at the box office.
3Released 14 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Gaelic, English.
5International production across 2 countries: United States of America, United Kingdom.
6Part of the "Prometheus Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
7Directed by Ridley Scott, shot by Dariusz Wolski. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Marc Streitenfeld. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Pietro Scalia shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "The search for our beginning could lead to our end.".
12IMDB entry: tt1446714 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1313,702 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 19 themes, including "android", "alien", "space", "creature".
15Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Original score: Marc Streitenfeld
Editing: Pietro Scalia
Production design: Arthur Max
Costume design: Janty Yates
Makeup / hair: Jana Carboni
VFX supervisor: Trent Claus
Sound: Doug Hemphill
Stunt coordinator: Rob Inch
Runtime: 124 min · 2h 4m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $130,000,000
Box office: $403,354,469
Return: 310% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Prometheus (2012)

Part of

Prometheus Collection

In 2012, the science-fiction/horror film Prometheus brought Ridley Scott back to the film franchise he launched in 1979 with Alien. Prometheus Collection movies offer a sort of back door into the original Alien film, answer questions about where the series’ terrifying monster came from.

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Dark Jedi2012-11-03
★ 4/10
The special effects are great, the scenery and photography is lovely but the film is as a whole a big disappointment. You would have thought that with such a budget they could have hired some guy to make a basic sanity check of the script but obviously that wasn’t in the budget for this one. I do not know if a lot of Hollywood people are idiots or think the audience are idiots or both but for Christ sake, how difficult can it be to come up with a plot that holds together and are at least half believable? A trillion dollar expedition to discover the “makers of mankind” and they put together a band of asocial morons for crew where not even the scientists among them seems to have met each other before the wake up millions of miles from Earth. Almost everyone behaves in a completely unbelievable way. Yeah, it looks okay so let’s remove the helmets for instance? Right, apart from the immediate danger to your own health, what about quarantine procedures…idiots? Why did the robot put the mutagen in the drink? It’s just illogical and never really adequately explained. Speaking of robots, robots have a power source and it’s not spread all over them. If you rip their head of they do not continue to talk like nothing had happened. In the original Alien they at least had to hook him up to something. It goes on. The entire film is just a jumble of illogical acts one after another. Then we have the ending. What a joke. Apart from the fact that Elizabeth’s actions are just ridiculous, how does she expect to live on a alien ship without food or any other supplies? This film had good promise. The idea of getting to know the origin of the aliens intrigued me and the basic plot idea was cool. However, the film was really ruined by a script obviously written by total morons.
Andres Gomez2015-12-29
★ 6/10
Although this is not a great movie, I was positively surprised, given the tons of bad references I got from this movie. The background story is interesting and the cast is quite decent. Theron and Elba played well but specially remarkable are Rapace and Fassbender. In any case, it does have many flaws in the script. Several characters are stupid beyond comprehension, several things are completely unexplained, Pearce character is really bad and the crashing of the alien spaceship is just ridiculous, as it is the killing of Theron's character. In any case, it doesn't leave a bad after taste and I am looking forward to the continuation of the story.
r96sk2022-02-24
★ 7/10
Looks good, but feels a bit hollow to me. <em>'Prometheus'</em> - which serves as a (loose) prequel to <em>'Alien'</em> - didn't excite me and I didn't feel like I got anything from it. It's still a good film and it is a pleasant looking one at that, with neat special effects et al. I also like the casting for this 2012 release. Noomi Rapace is probably the film's standout, though Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron and Idris Elba are also involved - the latter two feel a bit underused, we get a fair bit of them both but still I wanted to watch them more - especially Theron, who feels a bit tacked on.