Prometheus

Released: 2012
Sci-Fi, Horror
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender
Running Time: 124 minutes
Rated: R

The breakdown: A team of explorers journey to the far reaches of the universe to find out who or what created human beings.

I was very much looking forward to this movie and not remembering much of the Alien franchise is probably best to see this movie.  I can't remember seeing any of the others in their entirety, I know I've seen many bits and pieces, but I just never got around to sitting down to the whole movies.
Anyway, on Earth a couple of scientists find the same drawing on the cave walls of multiple civilizations that couldn't have possibly ever spoke to each other.  They see this image as an invitation to meet the beings that created human beings.
A few years later, the scientists and a group of 15 others are traveling in hyper sleep to get to this planet where they think the aliens are.  They get there, wake up and start exploring.  Within hours they find a sort of video recording of some disturbing deaths of the natives and find a dead body.  They take the head of a decapitated body back to the ship to study it and have to hurry along as a super bad and destructive storm is racing towards them and the ship.  Unfortunately, two crew members get lost on the way out and that's where the body count starts.

Overall, it was a good movie.  I think someone that's a big fan of the Alien franchise might be a bit disappointed, but if you go in there and just take it on its own, it's solid.
The special effects are top notch, the acting flawless, and the story is an entertaining one.

See it.  4 out of 5 for great make up, special effects, and acting.