How Can You Have so Many Interesting and Good Ideas, but Create an Unintentionally Hilarious 'Circus in Space' Type of a Movie at the End?

Rating: 5/10 (15 April 2020)

There is an Island, in the Bay of Bengal, called North Sentinel Island and it is inhabited by indigenous people. These people are one of the world's last uncontacted peoples, they are called the Sentinelese. They are protected by the Indian government and the travel to this island is prohibited within a few kilometers. One concern is the possibility of infecting them with common infectious diseases that they might not have immunity for. You see where I am going with this, right? Even on the same planet, there are people who are vulnerable to such diseases as common flu, which is not dangerous to a majority of human population. The astronauts who first landed on the moon stayed in quarantine for a few weeks after they returned, because of the possibility of a contagion from the moon. Another example is the Galileo spacecraft, which was purposefully burned in the atmosphere of Jupiter after it completed its mission, to prevent contamination of its moons with the bacteria from Earth... In the movie however, the crew lands on a completely strange planet, which they have literally just discovered, with no protection whatsoever! They breath the air freely, touch the vegetation and the water within minutes after landing. I mean they don't even act normal, entire sections of the movie is shot as a parody or something. I thought the guy was going to gulp down the water sample given to him by the woman. And I hate to nitpick movies, especially sci-fi movies, but the reason I am talking about these mistakes is that they immediately get infected and several of them dies! If there was no infection related deaths in the film, I would be mildly annoyed by the crews haphazard behavior, but wouldn't bring it up in my review. But it literally affects the plot of the movie. So, the writers came up with the idea of the crew getting sick on a strange planet but also let them behave so unrealisticly carelessly for the same situation. It is lazy, it is stupid, it is insulting and there are a lot stuff in the film like that...
After comically getting infected by the monster thingy contagion, they continue to act like clowns. One of the crew members, who got splashed in the face with the blood of an infected person, runs out of the room and traps her friend with the sick guy. I mean, had she done nothing afterwards, it could have been a half decent action, since despite of her seemingly healthy appearance, there is a possibility of her also being sick but not showing symptoms yet. But she comes back and within minutes, I swear, multiple people comically slip and fall down on the same blood puddle, then they accidentally blow up the shuttle while trying to kill the baby monster. Nothing anyone does makes any sense and it is hilarious.
Despite the flaws I mentioned, and believe me, you can't fit them all in a single review, the film actually has a lot of good ideas as I said in the title, but continuously ruined those ideas. I've always loved the concept of AI and it becoming self aware. My favorite movie of all times is Blade Runner (1982), which is also directed by Ridley Scott and has his recurring theme of searching for one's creator. Now that was the motive of the AI character in Blade Runner, to find its creator and ask for more life . However, there is nothing interesting in David's motives, he just acts like an a**hole to fill the role of a villain in the movie. There could have been two ways to give David really good motives: He could either have had a clear motive and purpose that made sense or they could have gone the opposite and make his motives too alien for humans to understand, which would be a mystery and could have been a lot creepier. But, as I said, they've just made a generic villain out of him with stupid motives. Another good idea was Elizabeth's ''ghost'', which was creepy, but of course they had to ruin that, too. The way they came across Elizabeth's broadcast might be one of the funniest and most ridiculous plot progressions in a movie. They got hit by some sort of supernova or something and they came out of hypersleep right next to the planet where they can pick up Elizabeth's broadcast. In their crippling laziness, writers actually made them stumble across in space! I don't even need to explain how ridiculously unlikely that is. You would probably have higher chances of winning lottery multiple times in a row...
In conclusion, with its amazing visuals and interesting ideas, you are never bored while watching this but you get angry a lot, then you occasionally laugh at the unintentional hilarity at times. I deliberately refrained from mentioning Prometheus (2012) anywhere in my review, because I'd like to think of them as separate movies in order not to ruin Prometheus, which has its own flaws but a better movie over all in my opinion. Imagine the possibilities they could have followed up from Prometheus... Lastly, I'd like to say something about movies in general, If you introduce a mystery in your movie, you either don't solve it, keep it as a mystery(my ideal choice) or come up with something smart and ahead of time, because often, they come up with the mystery first but not the explanation of it, then they can't write something smart and just botch the whole thing. I believe this is how we ended up with David as the main villain, because they couldn't follow up with the original engineers, they didn't know how to explain them, because they themselves had no idea what they were in the first place. At the end, I liked they didn't ruin them, too, because the little they wrote about them into the movie is indicative of how disastrous it could have been, if the movie was about them. They live like ancient Romans or something and despite their technology they live in caves... At the end, this movie makes you feel like Weyland dying, ''There is nothing...''