A disappointing flick

Rating: 6/10 (27 August 2017)

An immensely expensive space expedition to a far away planet, conducted to find out the origins of mankind, turns out to be the exact opposite of what it was expected.
I must tell that I had some high expectations regarding this one due to its synopsis and cast and as such, I was pretty disappointed by the outcome. It started promising but soon became nothing more than a ridiculous course of events. Every character has a personality completely different compared with what it should have been and as a result, their radical and apparently random decisions make you scratch your head pretty often. The whole idea of "the engineers" who created us seemed interesting and appealing but it turned out to be the film's biggest disappointment. They created us just to kill us, but not just easy. They "engineered" some new form of biological weapon which they couldn't control and all hell broke loose. Simply put, it's just stupid. To make matters worse, a lot of questions were left unanswered, although even a simple two minute debriefing could have done the job. Leaving the awful lot of downsides behind, I have to tell that it looks very impressive, with eyes-taking CGI and heart-pumping effects. Unfortunately, they, alongside Michael Fassbender's performance, were the only good sides of the movie.
It is a great letdown in terms of story but compensates a bit with its graphics. It's a shame how a lot of movies have such great plot ideas which go down the drain because they don't know how to make good use of them.