I am mostly disappointed

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2012)

I am a hardcore Alien fan, saw the movies more then dozens of times, read the books, fictional continuations, played games, ... you get the point.
I went into the cinema with high expectations, because I said that if anybody can do a good prequel to this franchise, its Ridley Scott.
After the movie I felt disappointed.
There are a lot meaningless scenes: characters just doing the dumbest things (i can even recall saying a few times that "I can't believe that they didn't put more thought into this scene"), you would expect that the "Engineers" would be a lot smarter, huge parts of the story aren't explained at all (what happened on the engineers ship prior to their arrival), unexplained conflicts between the characters that doesn't seem natural, lacking story, etc.
The whole movie looks like its just setting up another.
Unfortunately I cannot give more details without adding spoilers.
If you are an Alien fan like me, you will be frustrated that the movie you waited for this long is treating the subject you love without paying attention to details.
If you manage to lower your expectation and just go into the cinema saying "I just want to see a sci-fi movie with nice effects" than this is a movie for you.