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.
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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
Emun Elliott
Chance
Benedict Wong
Ravel
Director
Ridley Scott
Tagline
"The search for our beginning could lead to our end."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$130,000,000
Revenue
$403,354,469
Production
Dune Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Brandywine Productions, Scott Free Productions
Dark Jedi
November 3, 2012
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 Chri...
Andres Gomez
December 29, 2015
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 compl...
r96sk
February 24, 2022
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 Fa...
GenerationofSwine
January 13, 2023
What? Seriously...WHAT?! I don't understand what I watched. Alien was a monster movie in space. It was a great movie, it was scary and you could taste the tension....but it was just a monster movie in outer space. It was really just a merger of horror and science fiction. Aliens was a fun movie. But it was just Space Marines v Monsters. It was just a merger of action and science fiction. ...
Cuzzin Coo
April 12, 2023
Good Sci-fi 👍🏾 Finding a map left by our creators and then following it lightyears away for the search of the meaning of life, and immortality... Forget the horror part of the film, that plot alone had me fully immersed. _I watch this one at least twice a year. _
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