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Prometheus - Collector's Edition (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy) [Region Free]

Noomi Rapace (Actor), Michael Fassbender (Actor), Ridley Scott (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 11,625 ratings
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Runtime 1 hour and 58 minutes
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After scientists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green, Devil) discover mysterious cave drawings that point to the origins of mankind, they soon find themselves aboard the spaceship Prometheus, sponsored by Weyland Industries and on a journey to uncover the secrets of humanity. Overseen by the imperious Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron, Snow White and the Huntsman), looked after by the android David (Michael Fassbender, X-Men: First Class), and backed up by a team of scientists, Shaw and Holloway arrive on the isolated moon LV-223 to discover an abandoned alien spaceship and the truth… that not all is as it seems...

"A chillingly classy epic" *****--Mail On Sunday
"A classic in its own right" 10/10--Daily Star
"It doesn’t get much better than this" *****--The Sun

Special Features

Over 7 hours of extra features.

Furious Gods Documentary: 205 mins

• Conquest of Paradise: Renewing The Story
• Under The Pyramid: LV-223
• Reverse Engineering: USCSS Prometheus
• The Human Manifest: Casting and Costumes
• A World Without Green: Pinewood Studios, 2011
• Demons in the Dark: Creature Design
• Hazard Pay: Stunts and Action
• Fire From the Sky: Visual Effects
• Prometheus Unbound: Post-Production and Release

Enhancement Pods: 66 mins

• The Title Conundrum
• Prometheus: The Board Game
• Sexburster
• Knick Knacks of Tomorrow
• Fun With Molecular Gastronomy
• Building Better Logos
• Maker's Mark
• The Ampule Shoppe
• Language of the Gods
• First Exposure: Alien
• Body Mechanics: Trilobite
• Xenomorphology: The Deacon
• Constrictive Construction
• Chair Fetish
• One Day in Africa
• Location: Iceland
• The Art of Terraforming
• Battle of the Planets: LV-223 vs. LV-426
• All Things Holographic
• Weyland's Wet Dream
• The Case of the Fanfic Fake
• Merging Ridleyverses
• Gigeresque

Weyland Archive: 111 mins

Pre-Visualizations:
• Prologue
• Discovering the Planet
• Med-Pod: PG 13 Version
• Med-Pod: R Version
• Awakening the Engineer
• Prometheus vs. Juggernaut

Screen Tests:
• Noomi Rapace as Shaw
• Costume / Make-Up / Hair Test
• Costume / Make-Up / Hair Test with optional commentary by the cast

• Time-Lapse Sequence: Juggernaut
• US Teaser (Trailer A)
• US Trailer 2D (Domestic Trailer G)
• US Trailer 3D (Domestic Trailer G)
• International Teaser (Trailer K)
• International Trailer [2D] (Trailer E)
• International Trailer [3D] (Trailer E)

TV Spots
• Invitation
• Story/Event
• Story/Young Male/B
• Trailer Cutdown
• Star/Vickers
• Star/David
• Star/Action/Combo
• Star/Thousands
• Arrived
• Explain
• Story/Event P/S Alt
• Agenda
• Star Map Hard
• Feel
• Extinction
• Star Map Softer RS
• Story Character Soft RS
• Star Map Soft OZ
• Story Character OZ
• Star Map Soft
• Story Character S/B
• Trailer E Cutdown
• Post Trailer
• Trailer E Cutdown Soft

• In 3 Days…' Promo
• In 2 Days…' Promo
• In 1 Day…' Promo
• TV Spot: Trailer Announcement
• 30 Years in the Making
• Creation
• International Creation
• Space Travel
• Noomi Rapace on Shaw
• Shaw
• Vision of Prometheus
• Logan on Holloway
• Charlize on Vickers
• HBO: First Look Prometheus

Amazon.co.uk Review

You want an alien world created anew, with wonders and horrors lurking in its furrows? You go to Ridley Scott, of course, spectacle maker and pictorialist par excellence. So Prometheus is bound to be eye filling, with fully wrought planetary vistas and occasionally jaw-dropping visual coups. And did we use the word alien back there? Yes, folks, Prometheus is a prequel, in a sideways sort of fashion, to Scott's 1979 Alien original--or at least it's a long-distant stage setter for that story. This one begins with a space mission that could reveal the extraterrestrial roots of Earth, although what's buried out on the planet turns out to be much more complicated than expected. In the midst of suspenseful episodes (and a few contrived plot turns), Prometheus reaches for Big Answers to Big Questions, in a grand old sci-fi tradition. This lends the movie a hint of metaphysical energy, even if Scott's reach extends well, well beyond his grasp. The hokier moments are carried off with brio by Michael Fassbender (the robot on board), Charlize Theron, and Idris Elba, and then you've got Noomi Rapace entering the badass hall of fame for a long, oh-no-they-didn't sequence involving radical surgery, which might just induce the vapours in a few viewers. Even if Prometheus has its holes, the sheer size of the thing is exciting to be around. Because this movie is gigantic. --Robert Horton.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9 - 2.40:1
  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.2 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm; 90 g
  • Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Ridley Scott
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Letterboxed
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 58 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 8 Oct. 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005ZCHWZY
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
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  • Gaggs
    5.0 out of 5 stars PROMETHEOUS
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2025
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    I had some problems at first as I've moved address and had to uninstall the PRIME app and then reinstalled it. But got there in the end 👍
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  • tracy errington
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic movie
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2025
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    Fantastic movie in the Alien franchise. I have already watched it multiple times and will watch it multiple more times, I think it is a brilliant addition to the franchise. Very happy.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Quick delivery perfect DVD
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2025
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    Fast delivery and well packaged. Good value for money. Would buy from again.
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  • Ed
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great picture quality
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2025
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    Great picture I’ve seen this film before on dvd
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Good 3D version
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2024
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    Good film with a good 3D rendering
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  • K. Lavin
    5.0 out of 5 stars great film in my opinion
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2012
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    Despite all the negative reviews this movie has recieved since its' cinema release earlier this year this is essentially a very good film. It is not simply a remake of "Alien" as some have dubbed it. For one thing, the story is very different as it revolves around a team of scientists on a mission to try to discover the origins of the human race, believing it may have extra-terrestrial origins when similar depictions of giant humanoid beings amongst the peoples of ancient civilizations are discovered. The giants are dubbed "engineers", the team set out on a mission to a planet in another solar system to discover more about these elusive figures and what possible role they may have had in our own creation. The planet they set down on is not the same as the one explored by the crew of the Nostramo in "Alien" though the first impressions are that the planet is uninhabited. A structure is discovered containing a dead engineer and hundreds of mysterious jars that contain a form of organic life, the design admittedly is vaguely reminiscent of the Alien eggs in the famous quadrology of films, the life encountered does give hints towards what manner of creatures you may expect to evolve from such forms. We don't know why the things are present on the planet or what the intentions of the engineers were on the planet, these questions aren't answered, you have to use your imagination and fill in some of the holes yourself. The film is more than open for a sequel and if another film is made then more questions will be answered about the engineers or "space jockeys", it does require you as a viewer to do some thinking of your own, perhaps that's the reason many thought this was a poorly executed film as not all questions are answered. One of the crew of the promeutheus does get "impregnated" with an unknown life form in a similar fashion to the "Alien" films though the process is more mysterious and suttle. The implant is surgically removed and havoc breaks loose aboard the ship as all crew members are affected one way or another by their strange discoveries. In this film, it is revealed to us what the "engineers" look like underneath their strange biomechanoid suits. It is also made apparent to us that even a race millions of years ahead of our own are still liable to make mistakes, as we discover the lifeforms, presumably created by the extra-terrestrial race are potentially lethal to even their kind. The surviving engineer who is awoken from a deep hypo sleep by the prometheus crew onboard an alien craft is attacked by the creature that is spawned from the removed implant, which raises the question of whether his duty on the planet was to destroy the serpant like things contained within the pods. Perhaps his craft crashed and he was unable to complete the mission, it's never explained to us. Far from just being simply another Hollywood cash spinning venture or a remake of an old film, I believe this movie at least goes partway to explaining the "space jockey" found in the first "Alien" film and the possible beginnings of the "xenomorph" species all sci-fi fans are familiar with and made its' first terrifying appearance on cinema screens in 1979.
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  • G. Robinson
    3.0 out of 5 stars A bit of a let down. New Edit! (SPOILERS)
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2014
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    When Alien fans first heard in 2009 that Ridley Scott was making an "Alien prequel or sequel" many of them almost wet their pants in anticipation. The next two years or so of deliberate "leaks" from the set, teaser trailers, and constant comments on social media sites brought the excitement felt by fans to very near fever pitch. I know this because I was one of them.

    However the result of all that anticipation was a poor film that left a lot of fans scratching their heads and in some instances asking for their money back. It is generally accepted that Prometheus promised much and delivered little.

    Whereas Alien was mean and lean supremely efficient filmmaking complete with believable characters, stunning imagery, claustrophobic realistic sets, fabulous model work, a truly terrifying Alien, a simple but effective screenplay (people trapped somewhere with a monster picking them off one by one)and convincing scant dialogue peppered with profanity, Prometheus is none of these things.

    It is however very wordy, people talk a lot, Roomi Rapace is no Ripley, the huge script is often juvenile, a screenplay full of people standing around talking, Charlie Theron and Guy Pearce are completely wasted in silly unnecessary roles. The film takes an age to get going but you do have to listen to all that family angst trotted out by Waylan first. Mr Scott's direction is at best pedestrian and at worst on autopilot. The finesse often apparent seems in short supply here; perhaps he was less than optimistic about the project after reading that leaden script and slow screenplay.

    If you do get to the second and much better half of the film, you then have to accept generic seen before movie scientists, not only being incredibly unscientific but bloody stupid to boot. Remember those Star Trek landing parties where the guys at the back in the red shirts always got themselves killed so the main characters can carry on in the show, well you can watch this old fashioned technique all over again in a modern mult-imillion Dollar movie today. Not only that but you can see it coming a MILE off. Bad decisions after even worse decisions are made by this incompetent bunch and only David the Android seems to know what is happening or has a real agenda. Played well by Michael Fassbender, the Android was, for me, the only real character in the whole film, oddly enough.

    The final 20 minutes are easily the best with the film actually at last coming alive. The family angst, the endless talking, and predictable story, finally takes a back step and the action ramps up. The last 10 minutes are very satisfying with at least some answers to why we have watched for the last two hours. The possibility of a sequel has once again whetted fans appetites for Prometheus 2, but Mr Scott needs to dump all the stuff fans don't want and concentrate on what they do. He's done it before he can do it again.

    Finally after a year or so to think on it, I think Prometheus is a poor and regarded by many fans as a missed opportunity.

    Edit.

    Just watched all the extra content on the 3D three disc version and am now even more disappointed than previously. It's now quite clear that Scott never intended to make an Alien prequel, as he says "it's been rung dry" but he was interested in the Space Jockey back story. Who they were, were they came from, what was their purpose, and most importantly what were they doing on that small planet. The story originally submitted was a straightforward adventure story that Scott was unhappy with, so in comes Lost and Into Darkness "writer" Damon Lindelof.

    Scott comes across as a frustrated writer, shoving ideas under Lindelof's nose and Lindelof, who has said he does not like to write alone, was more than happy to insert any idea that Scott had off the top of his head (the silly rolling spaceship being a prime example). With Scott not really knowing what he wanted and a writer happy to include any idea floated by the director we of course ended up with the car-crash that Prometheus became.

    It's also clear that the script was even more wordy and leaden than the released film, at least two fairly long "telling stories" scenes were dumped after being filmed at great cost. Why were they in the script in the first place. And great stuff like the TED conference showing Weylans true character as a young man in his 30's were left out. This at the beginning of the film would have explained Weylans character and we would have understood his motives. The character would then have made at least some sense.

    A fully CGI Fifield was shot and dumped even though it was far superior to the scene that ended up in the film. Characters just vanished never to be seen again. Seventeen crew members and only one Android, if they are so good why not dozens of them to do all the dangerous stuff. Why does Weylan hide away like a naughty schoolboy. Why does Vickers come at all, years in space so she can just bark orders at people, she could do that at home in comfort with no danger. The character does nothing except kill a main crew member with a Flame Thrower, that she knew how to operate, that just happened to be lying around fully fuelled and ready to go, and shortly afterwards dies in the most stupid way I've seen in a long time. Holloway finds extra terrestrial life for the first time ever, but still decides it's not good enough and gets hammered in the bar wallowing in self pity. He should be euphoric and pumped up. Duh.

    Shaw has major, and I mean major abdominal surgery and within minutes is, running and climbing, jumping, carrying heavy bags, fighting aliens with an axe, all with her abdominal muscles cut right through and some staples holding her skin together. Beyond belief even in Sci Fi. And in the end why are the Engineers so pissed of with us? They made us, we are genetically identical to them, but as soon as they see us they start ripping heads off and going ballistic for no obvious reason. Did they engineer the Alien, did they engineer the Black Goo, why was a representation of the Alien queen from Aliens in the Head room if they hadn't been created yet. What were they going to do with the thousands of goo vases found. Who were all those dead engineers running from?

    After watching all the bonus extras it is my opinion that Scott is 80% and Lindelof 20% to blame for the mess that Prometheus is. Neither appears to have had a clear idea of what they wanted and fed of each other until all there respective bits and pieces seemed to fit together. Being purposely enigmatic and leaving the story open to interpretation is one thing, but just shoving in things that look good on screen but make no sense is just plain lazy.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cool
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 January 2025
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    Fun to watch
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  • Manuel Casillas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magnífica calidad
    Reviewed in Mexico on 23 July 2023
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    La película es estupenda
    Y que decir de las imágenes de magnífica calidad!!

    Solo el cd 2 no se a qué se refiere..ya q mi equipo
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  • Gilbert Faes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Aankoop Prometheus ( Blu-ray )
    Reviewed in Belgium on 11 December 2023
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  • Dalhas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Un film incompris.
    Reviewed in France on 25 June 2023
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    Film injustement sous noté par la presse spécialisée se revendiquant d'être la seule a comprendre ce qu'un film se doit d'être, elle a été relayée dans son propos par une frange de fans boys aigris idiots qui n'ont cessés de clamer ci et la, que promotheus trahissait son oeuvre d'origine. FAUX!
    N'écoutez surtout pas ces imbecilo-reac' du cinéma qui souhaitaient que le film soit une redite du 1er. Car le résultat a pour mérite de se réinventer totalement dans on histoire, et sa contruction tout en respectant son propre univers. Avec une grammaire cinématographique au diapason, Ridley Scott nous sert un film absolument maîtrisé scénaristiquement, porté par une réalisation à son zénith et servie par des acteurs judicisieusement choisi, pour distiller un récit s'enfonçant de plus en plus, à mesure que les minutes passent, vers un discours nihiliste et destructeur qu'aucune conclusion ne viendra sauver...
    Fuyez les aigris qui auraient voulus un copier / coller débile des deux premiers films, ou les limités cinématographiquement qui auraient voté pour une succession de scènes d'hemoglobines: prometheus est un film froid, remarquablement pensé et réalisé pour étoffer et installer un univers imaginé il a y a 40 ans, par celui SEUL qui l'a imaginé. Et non quelques fans boys idiots perdus et frustrés derrière leur écran de smartphones
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  • jonathan menezes
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the year's best Si-Fi Thrillers
    Reviewed in India on 13 July 2019
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    In response to mankind's three most pressing questions—Where do we come from? What is our purpose? What happens to us when we die?—the empirically minded suggest that we probably arose through abiogenesis out of a primordial ooze, that we exist to propagate our genetic code, and that death simply returns our atoms to be endlessly recycled. The faithful, meanwhile, take comfort in a supernatural creator who has a plan for their lives, culminating in an eternal heavenly reward. But what if neither camp is quite right? What if we were planted here, not by a god, but by a race of corporal beings sufficiently technologically advanced to traverse the universe, seeding the cosmos with life of their own design?

    This is no new idea, but it first gained cultural traction with the 1968 publication of Erick von Däniken's bestseller, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, a work of staggering psuedoscience and blatant anthropological chicanery. If completely bonkers and without any actual evidence, the book still makes for an imaginative flight of fancy, and its key, "ancient astronauts" concept serves well as the basis for Prometheus, director Ridley Scott's magnificent-but-flawed return to the sci-fi genre. Despite what you may have heard, the film is a prequel to Scott's 1979 classic, Alien, although not necessarily a direct one. It's better to think of Prometheus as a semi- distant relative, twice or thrice-removed. The two movies aren't immediately narratively linked, but they share much of the same DNA.

    And Prometheus is all about DNA. The pre-title sequence takes us over a barren, lifeless landscape, and up to the top of a turbid glacial waterfall, where an alien protohuman—who looks like a buff, living marble reproduction of Michelangelo's David—stands by the shore, holding a cup of black goo. This is an "Engineer," as they'll later come to be called, and he's here to seed what we can presume to be Earth. He downs the viscous caviar-like substance in one gulp, and immediately his cellular structure begins to break down, causing his skin to rupture, his bones to snap grotesquely, and his body to fall into the water, where it dissolves, spreading genetic material downstream. Et voilà! Life. Eons later, in 2089, we cut to a pair of anthropologist lovers—the believer Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and the atheistic Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green)—as they find a 30,000-year-old cave painting on the Isle of Skye, depicting an Engineer-ish-looking figure pointing to a cluster of stars, an image that's been found in numerous archeological sites around the globe. Shaw believes it's "an invitation," and soon enough they're aboard the spacecraft Prometheus—funded by the supposedly dead industrialist Peter Weyland (Guy Pierce)—zipping toward the distant moon LV-223, hoping to find answers to humanity's deepest existential questions.

    Unlike the Nostromo, Alien's dingy blue-collar mining craft, Prometheus—named after the mythological fire-stealer—is a state-of-the-art research vessel, carrying scientists from pertinent fields, including spectacled biologist Millburn (Raff Spall) and punk geologist Fifield (Sean Harris), along with a substantial crew of ancillary characters. The ship is captained by former military man Janek (Idris Elba), but the real leader of the expedition is Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron), a stone-cold Weyland Corp. employee who makes it clear to everyone—Shaw and Holloway especially— that they report to her. Also on board is David (Michael Fassbender), an 8th generation android who's obsessed with Lawrence of Arabia—he even dyes his hair to look like Peter O'Toole—and ironically becomes the very soul of the film, a grown-up Pinocchio who can never become a real boy. Not to demean the rest of the cast, who are generally decent-to-excellent, but Theron and Fassbender are the two acting powerhouses here, the former all icy secrecy and the latter effete and guarded—think a more refined C3PO crossed with Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

    In a way, Prometheus is a more pop, "genre"-oriented version of 2001, both concerned with evolution, artificial intelligence, and the notion that something out there gave the fire of human consciousness its first spark. Where Kubrick's film is a slow-burning intellectual exercise, Prometheus becomes a tension-ratcheting affair where the big ideas are couched in stylish big-budget sci-fi/horror action. When the ship lands on LV-223, which is not the moon from Alien, the crew quickly—too quickly to believe actually—spots and enters an enormous pyramid complex with reniform subterranean tunnels and a chamber that houses a monolithic human head and dozens of cylinders filled with that DNA-altering black goop. Nearby are the piled up bodies of several long-dead "engineers," who were obviously trying to escape something but didn't make it. Without getting into spoilers, it's safe to assume to that one or more team members become "infected," and you can also expect to see some aggressive lifeforms that have never before appeared in the Alien franchise, although they share the phallic/yonic, H.R. Giger-inspired qualities of the facehuggers and xenomorphs of yore. There are grotesque mutations, frantic firefights—one involving an actual flamethrower—and even an emergency alien fetus c-section, the film's most white-knuckle, squirm-inducing scene.

    Does the original xenomorph monster show up? Well, sort of. Let's just say it has a fan-appeasing cameo. Written by Jon Spaihts and Lost's Damon Lindelof, Prometheus expands the universe of the series and unravels a few mysteries from the first film—yes, the "space jockey" in that pilot's chair was an "engineer"—but it also raises a host of other questions that it doesn't have time to answer. (Why do the engineers suddenly want us dead? Why leave us a star map guiding us to what's essentially a biological weapons depot? If the engineers created us, who created them?) With a sequel already in the works, I don't consider the lingering ambiguities a problem—and I love the post-viewing discussions that naturally arise because of them—but Prometheus does have other shortcomings. There are small potential plot holes, and a few scenes that feel forced—inserted for narrative convenience or just to ramp up the action—but the most noticeable issue is that characters sometimes simply don't act in believably human ways. They contradict earlier established behaviors. They make choices only a soon-to-be-slaughtered teenager in a slasher movie would make. They don't express nearly enough awe at the fact that they're not just on another world, but making discoveries that dramatically alter humanity's assumptions about its own origins.

    Prometheus probably could've used another script revision to tighten everything up, but the pacing flows well—even when some of the events don't exactly make sense in retrospect—and there's no doubt that the film is an experience, the kind of grand-scale, high-concept science fiction that's unfortunately rare. (Although, between Looper and Cloud Atlas this year, sci-fi seems to be making a comeback.) I don't really get the small but rabid cult of haters that's sprung up to deride the film, but I blame the internet hype machine, which skews expectations impossibly. If you're anticipating the be-all-end-all Alien movie, with mind-melting twists and non-stop horror, then yes, Prometheus might be a bit of a let-down. But this prequel really is its own entity and deserves to be seen and evaluated on its own terms. Personally, I think it's a terrific reboot of a franchise that had grown ridiculous long before the dopey Alien vs. Predator movies. Ridley Scott directs the hell out of this thing, the scope is immense—check out those real, predominately non-CGI sets—and call me a heretic, but damn if Michael Fassbender doesn't make a better android that Ian Holm or Lance Henriksen ever did. Onto the sequel, I say, and if Scott isn't going to do it—he's only listed as producer, and he'll probably be busy revisiting the world of Blade Runner—I nominate David Fincher, whose Alien 3 got bungled by the studio, and who definitely deserves another shot at the series. Anyone second that motion?

    Gorgeous. And that's about all you really need to know. But for the sake of completeness, let's get into what makes Prometheus' 1080p/AVC- encoded Blu-ray transfer so stunning. Using Red Epic digital cameras mounted to 3ality Technica Atom 3D rigs, the film was shot almost entirely on Pinewood Studio's famed—and enormous—007 lot, allowing Ridley Scott and cinematographer Dariusz Wolski complete control over the lighting of the magnificently detailed sets. The combination of a great camera system, high-quality Zeiss lenses, and precise manipulation of the direction and degree of light makes for an image that's often terrifically sharp and nearly noiseless at times. Camera noise does spike a bit during the darkest scenes, but it has a granular quality that looks almost filmic up close, with no digital harshness or chroma artifacts, and it isn't really noticeable from a normal viewing distance. It should also go without saying that there are no compression issues or encode errors on this top-tier release; even scenes where you might expect to see some banding or splotchiness—flashlights cutting through darkness, volumetric clouds of dust rising into the air, fine color gradients—hold up under pixel-peeping scrutiny. The level of clarity is exemplary for a live-action film. Fine detail is ever-present in the textures of the actors' faces, the fabric of their clothing, and the intricacies of the props and set design. The film's distinct color palette is handled with ease too. The inky depths of the pyramid, the yellow LED lights inside the explorers' helmets, the cool fluorescence inside Prometheus, the spatters of blood, the skin tones—everything has a satisfying density and presence.

    And then we come to the film's use of 3D, which is some of the best I've seen outside of all-CGI movies. If you saw the 3D version of Prometheus in theaters, you'll already have a good idea of what to expect on Blu-ray, namely, lots of depth and little-to-no projection. That is, you'll spend a lot of time looking into your screen—which becomes a kind of portal through which to view a 3D diorama—but you won't find any leap-out-of-the-TV-and-jab-you-in-the-eye gimmickry, which may work in horror films or cartoons, but would only cheapen the experience here. And because there are no objects jutting out towards you, you don't have to worry about the roughly 2.39:1 frame cutting anything off. (No, there's no 1.78:1 "open-matte" version available.) There are a few longer landscape shots where no dimensionality is apparent, but most of the time there's a clear and natural-looking distinction between foreground objects and their backgrounds. There are definitely some "showpiece" 3D shots, like the landing sequence, the silica dust storm, and the engineer holograms, but the 3D effect is most impressively used to add a degree of realism to some of the more mundane scenes, like when Holloway stares into the mirror of his cabin, noticing there's something unusual in his eye. Or Shaw lying on the all-white operating table. Clarity and color both hold-up well, and there are no unusual 3D anomalies to report. Of course, the effect will be better on bigger screens—and the amount of ghosting/doubling you experience will depend on the quality of your TV/projector/glasses—but in general, Prometheus' 3D Blu-ray replicates the theatrical experience rather well. Do note that all screenshots are from the included 2D Blu-ray.

    Turn off the lights, crank up your receiver, and settle in—Prometheus's lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround track is one to savor, particularly if you've got a home theater setup capable of bringing the aural goods. This mix just doesn't quit; from start to finish it delivers room- quaking dynamics, pristine clarity, and polished, realistic, puts-you-right-in-the-middle-of-the-action sound design. From the opening scene on the barren planet Earth we get deep sub-woofer engagement, the lapping, crashing, and bubbling of a massive waterfall, and the thunderous rumble of an alien ship overhead. The sense of all-surrounding immersion is near-constant from here forward. Bleeps and bloops and the hush of processed air aboard the Prometheus. Sirens wailing in the rears. Dripping rain. Convincing cavernous reverb. The whipping of a monster's tendrils. Debris from an explosion rocketing through the soundscape. Silica dust clinking furiously as a storm blows across LV-223. Fifield's mapping "pups" as they zoom off through underground corridors. There's not a scene where the audio isn't lushly and thoughtfully arranged. Just take the actors' voices, which—besides being well-balanced and easily understood—always reflect the acoustics of their surroundings, flatter aboard the ship, slightly muffled inside their helmets, echoing and wet inside the pyramid. All this is backed up by Marc Streitenfeld's enormous-sounding orchestral score, which alternates between quiet uneasiness and sheer bombast.

    Note that the 3D disc and the 2D disc have slightly different dub and subtitle options.
    3D: Includes descriptive audio, and Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Urdu, and Tamil dubs—in Dolby Digital 5.1—along with English SDH, Span, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Port, and Swedish subtitles.
    2D: Includes descriptive audio, and Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telegu, and Ukranian dubs—in Dolby Digital 5.1, except for the Russian DTS 5.1 track—and English SDH, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian subtitles.
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