Read the books for a believable story

Rating: 1/10 (20 June 2012)

What has happened to this film it could have been great but it turned into a reasonably looking, poorly acted, terrible written with direction that gave it all the energy of a damp squib.
In Alien there is a cargo ship that intercepts an ALIEN!!! beacon and is sent to discover what it comes from. The ship is buffeted and battered and makes a rough landing. The crew leave the Nostromo and find a crashed ship
filled with eggs in some sort of smoke filled trough and an alien pilot which has had something burst from it's chest.
In Prometheus two scientists with a mad cap theory based on some unconnected drawings of a roughly similar group of stars convince a industrialist to spend trillions of dollars to go off on a wild goose chase into deep space. This flight can't be registered in any way as it is not mentioned in any of the later films. In fact it is openly denied that the corporation has no knowledge of the planet. This mission glides to a smooth landing on the planet in a ship far more high tech than the ship used in the later Alien film and still more high tech than the 50 year later film Aliens. They find a huge alien complex with multiple ships non of which is found in either Alien or later in Aliens when the planet is being terraformed.
The story then unfolds with scientist taking no real safety measures even after crew become infected discover many strange types of goo and creatures and even an alien. This humanoid alien tries to destroy mankind (it is never explained how they discovered his plans) so the humans (who we have no interest in crash their ship into the alien ship preventing take off.
The Alien then leaves the ship and attacks the last human but is thwarted by a huge face hugger that has grown after being sterilised and having no food becomes bigger than the alien that is twice as large as a human. This face hugger plants an embryo similar to the one in Alien that then bursts from the alien beings chest and look vaguely like the xenomorph from the other films.The film then ends with no real explanation of how the alien that the xenomorph burst out of moves from one ship to another after dying or why a creature that has come from goo to become the xenomorph would now go back to the alien ship and lay eggs.
There are books by Steve Perry that explain everything that went on in the first films better than Ridley Scott has in this terrible film. I get the feeling He wanted to make a film about the origins of mankind but nobody was interested so he through in some strange Alien prequel idea into the mix just to get money from the studios.
If you love the Alien film even if you could stretch your imagination to accept AVP don't watch this film the plot has more perforations than a tea bag, the acting is sterile leaving you not caring about the characters. It does have good visuals but in the movies as in computer games good graphics doesn't make a good game.
This film is simply the worst big budget film I have seen and that includes The Phantom Menace. In Prometheus Jarjar Binks would have been a great character compared to the rest of the cast.