What were they thinking?!

Rating: 2/10 (1 November 2012)

Initially dreading "Yet another Aliens movie", I watched it anyway and was nicely surprised at the idea of humans travelling through space to meet their gods....and then I realised that what I was watching was actually quite dreadful.
I can honestly say that apart from one short visual sequence involving one of the "gods", the rest of the movie left me cold. I was under the - obviously - mistaken impression that Hollywood had learnt that effects - however well done - simply cannot make up for a lacklustre storyline.
As a standalone story, the "humans flying through space to meet their gods" would have worked. The absolutely clumsy way in which they merge the aliens angle actually made me cringe and my respect for Ridley Scott has definitely taken a tumble as a result.
Wont be on my Christmas DVD list. Very disappointing.