The best Sci-fi movie of the year, but 'the best' is a overstatement.

Rating: 7/10 (5 June 2012)

After hearing the score from across the boards as above average, I was actually waiting to realise what made this a hollow film it was presumed to be. But in the end it was actually much better than what imagined, judging previously from the journalists reviews; I really enjoyed this film and everyone who has any slight interest in the films premise should view it at the cinema.
Ditto on the first half, very nicely paced hour. We as an audience are drawn and submerged into the films world and the main characters are built on this foundation with the plot tagging alongside. Although they found what they were looking for almost immediately which I found to be too coincidental, even for Scotts standards.
Fassbender leads as the performer playing 'David' brilliantly, who seems at first to have other intentions compared to the other crew members. Rapace is a close second and is definitely the Ripley of this film, I felt the last 15 minutes played a homage to the original Alien film, which she acted out as if Scott was attempting to create a carbon copy his former scene. But there's a lot of minor characters who aren't really explained and seem to serve purpose of just being the disposable crew. Theron is hot.
Mid-way thorough the film; the genre very quickly dives into an unnecessary mild horror film before surfacing again back into sci-fi and then repeating that again near the end. The final scene is extremely satisfying, but I'm not going to give that away.
My main concern with this film was that I didn't want the mystery behind what I believe to be Xenomorph to be revealed. The film instead gave me my own interpretation of it's origin and surprisingly I was left at the end with only just a couple of questions to attempt on answering myself, rather than what I expected from many of the reviews I read prior to watching this.
Secondly the Space Jockey in this film is exposed too earlier on and I thought it defeated the mystery behind the film which I thought played a big part. It's like when horror films put a spot light on the monster and reveal it to us in broad daylight, so it takes away that aspect of tension that fuels these type of films. The overall effects are great in this film; the star of the show was, it kept the squeamish tradition intact from the chest-buster scene which we all grew to love.
All in all, it's not as good as Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down or Blade Runner but probably in fifth or sixth place, but I could see it returning as a cult classic in the future like how Fight Club did. I also believe 'Prometheus' is Ridley Scott's counter on Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine'; both films seem to share the same DNA as each other rather than with Alien's. The plot also seemed extremely similar to Aliens vs Predator's, but was of course handled so much more maturely.
I recommend the film but it may leave a sour taste on your tongue if you're very sensitive to the Alien franchise, if not it may be bitterly sweet. See it.