My Nickel Review is a personal vision of how film commentary should be: brief, to the point, an answer to the critical question, Was it any good? For my opening salvo, Prometheus!
Ridley Scott's welcome return to a genre he pioneered is balanced perfectly on the razor-sharp edge of science fiction and horror, taking us back to the wonder and abomination that made the original Alien film a lasting testament to the human condition. Prometheus makes the horror explicit, presenting images I wish I could get out of my head -a sign, I suppose, of a healthy psyche that recognizes very bad things when it sees them. But for anyone that likes the original or its sequel, Aliens, this is compulsory spectacle at its best.
Ridley Scott's welcome return to a genre he pioneered is balanced perfectly on the razor-sharp edge of science fiction and horror, taking us back to the wonder and abomination that made the original Alien film a lasting testament to the human condition. Prometheus makes the horror explicit, presenting images I wish I could get out of my head -a sign, I suppose, of a healthy psyche that recognizes very bad things when it sees them. But for anyone that likes the original or its sequel, Aliens, this is compulsory spectacle at its best.
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