Prometheus

Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, and Michael Fassbender
investigating alien ruins.

What an amazing movie! This was the perfect non-prequel to a great franchise. The movie is a non-prequel to the Alien franchise. For those of you who have not seen the movie Alien (1979), I recommend you see that before seeing this for the plot can get confusing if you have not seen Alien. By the way, I say non-prequel because it is not exactly a prequel, but it shares certain traits from the original Alien.

The movie is directed by Ridley Scott, director of: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, and Black Hawk Down, and stars Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce and Michael Fassbender.
Noomi Rapace plays archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw who, along with her character's boyfriend Charlie Holloway (Marshall-Green), discovers ancient drawings that lead to a planet that could possibly show where we (humans) came from. However, things go awry when a crew member becomes sick with an unknown parasite.

The spaceship Prometheus.

This movie blew me away when I saw it. Granted, there are some things from the original Alien that aren't there, but at any rate this is such a great movie. The movie was written by Damon Lindelof who was the executive producer and the co-creator of the television series Lost and the co-writer of the latest Star Trek movie. Kudos to Damon though for excellent writing.