Review: "Prometheus" aims high, comes inspiringly close to greatness
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Film Rating: B+
At the heart of Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” lies one of the single most subversive and unsettling questions I have ever seen posed by a major Hollywood release: What if we – the entirety of the human race and all our experiences – are not only one massive cosmic accident, but an unwanted one as well?
That’s bold, incredibly thought-provoki…
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