What other critics are saying ...

This is a remarkably scary and eye- popping headrush of a movie, an experience that offers a maximum adrenalin boost at the same time as it engages your intelligence. Don’t miss it.

— Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies The paranoia becomes palpable, and a lot of its impact comes from how dramatic and dazzlingly seamless the special effects are. — Christy Lemire,

Associated Press Ridley Scott briskly blends the high- minded stuff with impressive boo- and- goo sequences, ratcheting tension in tight spots and dark caverns. One set piece should become a new milestone in horror, as John Hurt’s tummy trouble did in Alien. — Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times Prometheus is to Alien what 2010 was to 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the difference between a masterpiece and a merely watchable

revision of that masterpiece.

— Roger Moore, McClatchy- Tribune News Service With this overreaching Prometheus, Scott seems a bit like David carefully arranging his hair in imitation of O’Toole’s Lawrence. He can still mimic the appearance of an epic, noble, important movie — but the appearance is all.

— Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice My advice to Scott and Lindelof is, try harder — to bring the characters as well as the creatures alive; to extend the grandeur of that music- of- thesphere scene to an entire movie; to devise new horror- film money shots; and to scare the crap out of me.

— Richard Corliss, Time Prometheus seems to delusionally maintain that its modest thrills are being enlivened by deeper concerns.

— John Semley, Slant Magazine