Prometheus II: Moses

I guess it was inevitable. After Thor, christian movie makers picked up the gauntlet, and answered with Noah. Or ‘The day after 4000 years ago’, as we call it. Well, Thor II came out, and now the christians are upping the ante with Exodus: Gods and Kings, also a tale ‘inspired by the bible’. As with all the other Godflicks, realism is not an issue (and I’m not saying that it should – these are fantasy movies after all), so the trailer does look promising.

The story itself is a bit tired, but I can see why it’s interesting for Ridley Scott to make such a movie: It’s the natural continuation of his Prometheus, placed in our past; a veritable Alien: the Pre-SequelGladiator meets the Alien. And there is progression: In the original, the Alien only killed a handful of people. Then the death toll rose with each sequel. In Exodus (at least going by the book this is based on), the Alien kills hundreds of thousand people: all firstborn and Pharaoh’s army.

This time, though, it wins: by making a whole people it’s mind-slave. Predictable, yes, but only because that’s how it’s written.

If this movie is anywhere as exciting as I hope it will be, I can’t wait for Scott’s next feature: Abraham: Blade Runner that recounts the heroic struggle of great man – who wants to kill his son because voices in his head tell him to. Again predictable: at the end, he lets his son go – just like Rutger Hauer spared Ford in the classic.