Prometheus - out in 2012

[Delirium]

Caught this today and it's not bad. Not one to hold a torch to the Alien legacy, mind, but it doesn't do it a great disservice either. The cast is uniformly good; Fassbender makes a chilling android and Noomi Rapace is a fine actress, filling the Ripley-style void with a likeable vulnerability. Charlize Theron, again highly watchable, isn't given a whole lot of screen time as the ice queen of the ship.

Some stunning visuals make the experience and it's faithfully Gigeresque.

However, it's very slight on plot and - visuals aside - there's little that actually stands out. It's to be commended that it follows Alien's disquiet (although lacks the claustrophobia, tension and general horror of that masterpiece - not least the memorable characters) rather than being a gung-ho action flick; indeed barely a weapon is fired. But again I found it boiling down to more style than substance.

It's easy to get swept away with the cinematography, but I couldn't help but find it unsubstantial as a whole. Enjoyable, certainly (and it's refreshing to have Scott back directing thoughtful sci-fi) but I still felt ever-so-slightly underwhelmed by the experience.