Visually Stunning.

Rating: 4/10 (21 September 2012)

Awesome.
From the visual point of view, absolutely gorgeous, impeccable photography, magnificent backgrounds, great imagination for the vehicles, for the interiors and for the futuristic equipment. The works! The whole movie was done with impeccable taste --technically.
The use of scale to show the immensity of the planet compared with that bunch of tiny aliens (earthlings) blows the mind because of its impeccably manufactured realism, virtual or otherwise, being impossible to detect one or the other, ever.
The script makes no sense whatsoever, and scenes can drag a lot more often than desired talking pseudo-scientific blabber all the time, having the viewer bored and more interested in the pattern of the room wallpaper --my case, since I was watching this film at home-- than on the screen goings on.
Another puzzling point in the script is the intervention of religion in it, quite disconcerting when we are talking top scientists here, in the year 2095...
Charlize Theron is so beautiful, ultra-thin and super-elegant that one wonders how can she manage to look so super cool in that spaceship 24 hrs a day with no beauty parlor in view or boutique with designer clothes around to keep her so neat looking (no dry cleaners either or showers in view, although they take care of those details within the studio facilities I suppose!).
The rest of the ship crew is the constant usual that we have seen in this kind of films a thousand times before, we can even anticipate the dialogs they will speak, since those are always the same. The very first scene, with the braking up of the alien body reminded me of "Altered States" where they did the same special effects but, oh...! so many years ago!
The truly unpardonable scene is the very last one, that seems to have been conceived by the monster alien itself still mentally confused thanks to that shocking way of coming to life or a very inebriated director with too much money to spend and not knowing what to do with it.
If you like Science Fiction movies, see this one for the visual allure ONLY.