In his return to science fiction, Ridley Scott's stunning, ambitious visuals are waylaid by his quasi-metaphysics.

Although Ridley Scott’s 3D visual feast is no classic, the oozing alien tentacles hit all the right sci-fi horror notes.

So here we are, after all the hype, the leaked scripts, the rumours – is it an ‘Alien’ prequel? Ridley says no, everyone else says yes – the viral clips, the te

Thirty years ago, on the basis of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” Ridley Scott looked as if he might become the most important sci-fi director of his time.

The cinema has always done hostility better than history. Perhaps that is a characteristic it shares with most of us. So, 33 years ago, the spaceship Nostromo was a beaten-up heap ready to be retired, but the engine of its story and the stealthy uncovering of its ultimate confrontation of raw hostility and Sigourney Weaver in her underwear might have been handled by a trio of Einstein, Heisenberg...

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“Prometheus” and “Dark Horse.”

With Prometheus, the always-epic Ridley Scott stays true to his oeuvre by offering an origin story that’s grand in scale, but falls short of greatness, Rick Groen writes

“2001: A Space Odyssey” was about an astronaut named Dave traveling to the far reaches of the universe to find the secret to man’s origins on Earth....

The stately prequel has none of Alien's visceral punch but no long dull stretches of cat-searching, either.

Title: Prometheus Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean

R • 2 hours 3 min • 2012

Halfway through Prometheus, something grand occurs. On a distant moon, in the gigantic cavern of an ancient, vanished race, the android David (Michael Fassbender) sits at a kind of organ console and plays notes that summon images of planets aligning — a stately celestial dance to the music of the ...

In 1979, science fiction was thriving, but the movie community, becoming gorged on lightweight space opera fare like Star Wars, was unprepared for what Ridley Scott delivered with Alien, which was as much horror as it was sci-fi. Since the iconic ...

Prometheus is a movie of grandiose ideas and imagination, as it should be with the tough acts and lengthy intermission it must follow. Director Ridley Scott seldom tackles...