Over 30 years ago, Ridley Scott (“Gladiator”) made a fantastic sci-fi flick called “Alien” and now he returns to the director’s chair and brings us this prequel. Ever since its debut in 1979, the “Alien” franchise has never really gone away and maybe that’s not actually a good thing but like so many other franchises, we somehow seem to need them to be constantly there in case we want to check out what’s happening next.

A team of scientists/explorers go in search of our beginning. However, what they find is not what they hoped to find. The characters go searching for answers but don’t necessarily find them in some instances and some they just don’t find the answers they want.

I wasn’t especially impressed with the cast in this film but I wasn’t disappointed either. Noomi Rapace plays Elizabeth Shaw and does an okay job. She’s the heroine of the picture, a lot like Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in the other “Alien” films. Michael Fassbender (“X-Men: First Class”, “Shame”) does a good job as the robot David. Charlize Theron (“The Devil’s Advocate”) is average as Vickers. Idris Elba (“The Losers”, “Thor”) is okay as Janek. The rest of the cast seem reasonably good but nothing special. “Prometheus” has a massive, nasty alien creature in it, which goes after the humans but it’s not the one you associate with the franchise. I thought the alien in this was quite good but it isn’t as memorable as the Xenomorphs from the other films in the series.

“Prometheus” is very close to the original in many ways and I like that it’s taken all this time for Ridley Scott to get back to the series as it shows it’s not merely for financial gain. Although it’s not as good as the first few pictures, it’s a good movie. It’s not as suspenseful as I hoped for but it’s not the horror or the action I enjoyed about this picture; I enjoyed the whole concept of finding our beginning. A sequel is implied and hopefully answers will come.