A question or two answered, more opened.

Rating: 9/10 (7 June 2012)

It's interesting reading other reviews and how venomous some are. OK, I agree with some points, one why was Charlize Theron in the movie? Anyone could have played her role and yes there are some stretches of the imagination, walking after abdominal surgery and so on.
One thing frequently mentioned is the stupidity of these aliens creating us then wanting to destroy us. It's not entirely clear that they actually created us, or should I say the engineers found, did it. The only clue is the spacecraft depicted at the very beginning of the movie, it's not the same as the one we later see. Who was the character who drank the DNA and died giving life to humanity? If that's what the scene is.
That's the myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the god Zeus and gave it to the mortals, in this case the engineer who stole this material, didn't know what it does (maybe) and brought forth humanity . . . an accident. To me he looked like he escaped from the ship or was left there to die. It's clear the alien engineers are aware of us due to many visitations documented by ancient cultures during different time periods. At least for now, that's my take on why they would want to destroy us, they didn't actually create us, it was an accident and now we are a threat.
I enjoyed the movie and wonder how it links to Alien, at least we know how Weyland industries is aware of, maybe not an organism but the biotechnology found in these ships and why they send the Nostromo to investigate a seemingly random transmission. I doubt the crashed ship in this movie is the same as in Alien, otherwise who put the Spacejockey into his seat and helmet.
There are three more ships left and I suspect we're coming back to LV223 in a sequel. As I said more questions than answers. As for character development, really? Is that why we went to see this movie? Yes, it could have been better but as a few people mentioned I'm sure Ridley had to cut the movie down . . . I hope so. It felt rushed in places, like something was cut here and there. We'll see.
One last thing, look out for the soundtrack nod to the original Jerry Goldsmith Alien score during the Weyland hologram message in the mission briefing scene.