Less entertaining than a poorly performed root canal

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2017)

First of all, I am not at all into shoot-em-up space flicks, and appreciate the cerebral kind. That is what this film came nowhere close to being. Insufferably pretentious, devoid of any really stimulating content, and paiiiiiiinfully slow paced to the point that I'm surprised I made it to the end at all. I've had root canals that were more entertaining.
It's really hard to figure out who the creators thought their audience was. Sci-fi fans will be disappointed, especially male viewers. It's strictly a chick flick. But chicks who look for flicks rarely would go to see a film billed as sci-fi in the first place. Men take warning: this film is a date killer. It's depressing as hell and mating will be the last thing on your date's mind after seeing this. Your genes will die with you.
I'm a research biologist and a linguist, so I know that I have to suspend disbelief when watching even the best sci-fi, and am generally able to and enjoy the film nonetheless. I wasn't able to do that with this film. The linguistics was all totally hilarious BS of the worst sort, and the scientist never did anything remotely resembling science at all.
The fault is entirely in the abysmal writing, or, rather, a very feeble attempt at writing. Can't fault the actors, although the lead was a bit monotonous and grating after a while, and the child actress was horribly annoying. The whole mother-daughter story had more sap than Vermont and New Hampshire combined.
It's not even worth discussing effects and such because, with such a badly written story, they were totally wasted and of no significance to the experience of the film.
Unforgettable only because it was so exceptionally bad. Prometheus is a gem next to this.