Ridley Scott slickly blends familiar themes from the series for this new prequel, but clunky dialogue takes the edge off the action Eleven years have passed since the ill-fated Prometheus mission. And ...

‘Man in his arrogance,’ wrote the astronomer Carl Sagan, quoting Darwin, ‘thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and, I think, truer to consider himself ...