<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/489/prometheus-filmjun12" rel="attachment wp-att-490"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-490" title="prometheus-film(Jun12)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/prometheus-filmJun12.jpg" alt="" width="268" height="188" /></a>We have a number of Tesco vouchers for the cinema that need to be used before the end of July and as we get into summer we are more and more reluctant to spend the light evenings in the darkness of the cinema however I was quite keen to see Prometheus because Ridley Scott is a superb director of the darker side of Sci Fi.

The film wasn't a let down however there were many, many references to other sci-fi films and it was a bit of an homage to some of the more classical films. It had the robot David, who was following a secret agenda similar to that of HAL in 2001 a Space Odyssey and also the aliens used musical notes to control their spacecraft which has similarities to Close Encounters when the aliens communicate via musical notes.

Overall this was a good sci-fi film with plenty of epic scenes both inside the space craft and also on the alien planet. It had all the horrors of the original alien film with naive crew members getting killed by alien creatures in the most close up and personal way. In this instance the alien didn't burst out of anyones stomach but was removed by an operating robot in a Cesarian operation. Both Jane and I were on the edge of our seats for much of the latter part of the film however we did leave a little confused because to us it seemed to us as though the alien creators were bent on destroying earth using the Alien creatures as weapons of mass destruction but the last crew member had somehow decided that the creators had decided not to carry out our genocide.

If you're a sci-fi fan then go see it, if not stay well clear.