so much hope, so little joy

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2017)

I gave the film a 5 because I could just about sit through it and want to know the ending. Saying that, i was just waiting for it to end.
The acting was so poor in this film, all the characters were just so one dimensional and their state never really reflected what was happening at each point in the film. They never really shown the level of fear and desperation that any human would have shown throughout the film.
The script is very predictable, and quite silly to be frank. A bunch of scientists who would have trained and studies so long for a mission like this make school boy mistakes and decisions and don't seem to know anything about space what so ever. The alien itself is so unrealistic too, i can understand it being intelligent but surely it has to learn its intelligence, like the part where it directs the pod to earth, how would it have ever learnt to do that?
It just struck me how plastic the acting was, even when the alien was on them they didn't struggle or show much fear, it was really robotic and unrealistic.
The cgi is OK, and some of the effects when the alien is entering the human are nice, but it seems to have gone down the avenue again that effects are more important than the substance of the story line.
Didn't enjoy it, wouldn't recommend it, stick to alien , Prometheus, or even a movie like europa report is much much better and and much cheaper budget.