Thumbs up! Beautiful and disturbing. (spoilers-inside)

This movie is beautiful and disturbing. An abundance of gorgeous, atmospheric and epic shots accompany us through the whole movie, and yet at the same time it can be gritty and close and human. Noomi Rapace IS the real deal. Marshall-Green and Elba deliver good acting. Theron is great as Vickers revealing just enough about what is going on under the icy surface. In addition to Noomi it is Michael Fassbender who steals the show though. He gives us a totally believable android with a dry sense of humour. Above all David is creepy. The first few baby steps of emotions (or soul if you like) are gestating in him and his innocent sense of wonder is mixed with a growing sense of bitterness and a touch of cruelty sparked by anger against his creators. Prometheus has much of the same sense of disturbing horror that the original Alien had. Yes people will talk about the scene where the medpod performs a cesarean on Dr. Shaw but the scene of a large proto-facehugger orally raping an Engineer complete with a very human-like pelvic thrust (we see the facehuggers back move characteristically) is what freaked me and my friends out the most. The de-humanization of Fifield also evokes The Exorcist for those who saw the directors cut with the creepy 'spider down the stairs' scene. Speaking of Engineers. It turns out that this moon they visit is some kind of operational station for their terraforming and bioengineering activity. An outpost that reveals a corrupted and inhuman civilisation. Not only are they willing to wipe out intelligent species, but they do so with an evil and disturbed creativity turning biology and reproduction against itself. The temple itself, the inner decor, the murals, the industrial doling out of bioweapons, the perverted vaginal openings in their ships... and the gigantic head - a product of a massive god-complex- all speak volumes. The surviving Engineer encountered by the crew of the Prometheus shares DNA and appearance with humans and yet is still utterly alien. It carries itself with the dignity of a superior being and yet there is a violent edge to its movements that mark it as something Other. There is also a primal and uncompromising willingness to deal out death and destruction without question. What seems to spark the violence in it is David trying to communicate in its language. This is clearly seen as a slight and what follows is terrifying. The corrupt anger in that classically shaped face and those deep dark eyes....it feels much like coming to the end of the river and finding Kurtz.