Exploring the underground base further, they find many containers of the black oil and in accidentally spilling some on the ground, we see it starting to mutate tiny worms in the earth… SPOILER ALERT! So, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the rest (but it helps!) - so in a nutshell:
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ey” in Alien), and that this ship is loaded with containers of the black oil (which it transpires is a chemical weapon), on a course to destroy the earth!
• Actually, this ship is one of many ships buried on this desolate planet, all of which we suspect are aimed at earth, or possibly other planets. END SPOILERS I won’t give you any more spoilers, save that the heroine, (a pretty good Noomi Rapace), saves the day to fly off with a very badly beaten android (that sounds familiar too). Like I said, the film is littered with plot-holes, inconsistencies and impossibilities, which I’m sure weren’t apparent when the story book was originally sketched out, but all of which you can’t ignore.
• The increasingly effeminate android uses the black oil to infect one of the crew, and we get a ‘full-on’ effect of what mutation occurs • At the same time the oil has really started to mutate the earth worms • Mutated worms and mutated crew member means lots of dead crew members, dispatched very quickly & unceremoniously. • We also find out that the now camp android has found an alien humanoid alive & well in suspended animation and is going to wake him because… (*Big Spoiler*) the richest man on earth has actually been on Prometheus all the time! Yes, the plan all along was for this dying “Donald Trump” to meet his maker, and to ask for more life (Hmm… that sounds a bit like Roy Batty!) • However, when the alien humanoid is awakened from stasis, it starts killing everyone in sight, too. • We now discover that the underground base is in fact, a spaceship (just like the one we see the “space jock82
she is played exactly as a new Ripley, in true Scott form: an unassuming archeologist who is called to perform some incredible feats (including giving herself a do-it-yourself Caesarian abortion and then stapling her stomach back up – no, you really have to see that scene!) And at the very end of the film, we are given a first glimpse of a proper Alien bursting forward fully grown from the body of a humanoid – all very inconsistent with what we know, and to be honest, a very underwhelming special effect. I’m presuming at this point, that the studio has green-lit this to be part of a trilogy. I’m not sure that Ridley Scott should be allowed anywhere near it, and he certainly shouldn’t be allowed to do a Blade Runner sequel. In my mind, I’ve got a pretty good idea where they will take this story arc: film two will have Noomi going to the humanoids’ home planet, where no doubt, there will probably be human beings used as slaves (otherwise she’s going to be the only real actor in the film!); the third film will possibly be her foiling a last attempt by the humanoids to destroy the earth – in fact, I wouldn’t be surprised that we find out at the end of film 3, that it is in fact her dead body sitting in the “space jockey” that we see in the ship in Alien… Remember – you read it here first!
The actors are all largely, woefully under-utilised. Poor Mr. Fassbender ends up playing the android as an androgynous butler; Logan Marshall-Green is a second rate Tom Hardy with a very thin character, and Charlize Theron might as well have sent an understudy as her character is a non-entity. Quite why they felt the need to age Guy Pearce with prosthetics to play the dying trillionaire, rather than just getting an older actor, is beyond me. The only character of any worth is Noomi Rapace, and
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