"Prometheus" is another fantastic thriller from the "Twentieth Century Fox" company. The world premiere took place on May 30, 2012, in the first week of views, he collected $ 35 million. The film is reminiscent of 1979's "Alien" in its plot and, in fact, is its prequel.
The film begins with a short story about the origin of life on Earth. An alien ship lands one "progenitor", very similar to a modern man, on an uninhabited planet. Drinking some kind of drink, it falls beautifully from a cliff into the river and breaks down into molecules. His DNA begins to interact with the world around him. So, according to the version of the creators of "Prometheus", the seed of life was sown.
Thousands and thousands of years have passed since the moment when an alien came to Earth for the first time, many times an alien civilization visited its children. Many ancient peoples have a legend about Gods who flew to the planet and left a legacy to mankind in the form of knowledge and writing.
During many years of archaeological research, ancient messages have been found - rock paintings, tablets, frescoes, etc. Sumer, Egypt, Maya, Hawaii, Mesopotamia - each of these ancient cultures developed independently, sometimes hundreds and thousands of years apart. But on all the artifacts found, scientists saw one pictogram - people worshiping extraterrestrial beings, which indicate the constellation from which they came.
Archaeologists Charlie Holloway and Elizabeth Shaw calculated the location of the desired galaxy and star system, which ancient texts indicate, and found a "planetoid" - a companion of the gas giant in the binary star system Zeta. They convince the head of a large corporation to send an expedition to the original planet to meet with their creators.
After two years of flight on the starship Prometheus at superluminal speed, the crew awakens from suspended animation. The planet to which they flew turned out to be empty, civilization perished, leaving behind ruins. In one of the caves, a group of researchers stumbles upon an ancient structure with the bodies of humanoid creatures in spacesuits. Gradually, it becomes clear to the crew of "Prometheus" what killed the creators of mankind, and now they have to destroy the ancient evil, otherwise they will simply have nowhere to return.
