Good at times but never climaxed quite right and never seemed focused.

Rating: 4/10 (20 May 2017)

The whole movie I'm not sure what it was about it...but it never focused or climaxed quite right. There wasn't enough "foreplay" and it just felt rushed many times throughout. The ideas seemed incomplete and scattered. It had the feel of someone who got a hold of a bunch of new ideas and effects but never took the time properly nurture them and the whole thing just seemed premature. I could tell there is amazing potential in all of it but it just doesn't seem focused enough or maybe too focused on the wrong "thing".
To be honest I feel like it could have been a whooolllee lot simpler in some areas and would have had a much larger impact. I also feel Ridley Scot, as a director, is great at rhythm, timing, and slowly (but never boring) pulling out the plot. He didn't seem to work upon that amazing gift too much throughout this movie but maybe that's not his fault. Another thing about the story and characters is I never felt them believable. No one wants to watch a bunch of completely incapable specialists (how the hell were any of these characters qualified to fly out in space is beyond me) fumble and totally fail in fashions that should be beyond them.Real fear is when smart intelligent people who are doing there best seem to still bite the dust in very very "real" breakdowns.
On a random positive note I loved the sudden and awesome moment where they were all in the field experiencing the first aggressive encounter...I will say no more of that scene.
Overall I know my review is mainly negative but the movie definitely wasn't horrible I just think it was nothing Ill really come back too considering it left me not wanting more, annoyed at times, and mainly just scratching my head. I get what they were trying to do but it just wasn't played out "right" and well...if this were sex, I would have wanted to climax so badly but would have never quite gotten there leaving me very frustrated.