Awful Film - Awful Script

Rating: 1/10 (11 October 2012)

Of course I bought into the hype of the film, the beautiful trailer, and the thrills promised, as well as some of the ratings that were floating around the internet (Ratings which make absolutely no sense whatsoever-should anyone bother reading actual written reviews, they'd discover that 90% of them were negative. I guess rating a movie-than actually going through the process of writing a review about it-is easier. Hence I don't trust ratings at all, as they can be easily controlled by studios).
So, long story short, I was awaiting for its release months ago.
I went to the theater with my friend, whom I recently indulged into the "ALIEN" franchise. But sadly, after a few minutes into the film, we were both turning to each other to make sense of the film, in a state of bewilderment.
What can I say that went wrong;
The characters? Characters that didn't seem to be consistent throughout the film and their actions made absolute no sense?

A robot that seems to act on behalf of someone, but then acts on his own, and then acts but we don't know why or how he knows the things he does?

Scientists that act as high schoolers and try to pet unknown life forms on a probably hostile alien environment?

A plane driver-along with his crew, who though seeming determined to get the job done and get out, without having any real feelings or connection towards the rest of the crew or the mission, decide in the end to save the world by kamikaze-ing themselves onto an alien ship as if they decided on the spot that they're deemed to be heroes?

Charlize Theron-who to this day, I still have no clue what her character offered in the story, besides running around in a tight spandex looking gorgeous?

NOTHING MADE SENSE. Nothing.
The thin plot? So thin, that in fact, beneath this thin veneer of superficiality one might expect to see in a mediocre run-of-the-mill sci-fi prequel, you discover an even thinner veneer of superficiality, and amateurish writing skills.

Supreme beings who probably created the earth millions of years before man, but then visited man in ancient times-as depicted in ancient drawings-and then deciding after a slumber to destroy the earth, or something like that?

-A woman undergoing surgery and walking away from it as if she had a bad pimple removed?
Oh so many things went horribly wrong with this film, but none as grave, as the fact that they completely destroyed the one thing that was alluring about the "ALIEN" mythology. The fact that we-the audience-knew anything about the origins of the aliens, and that was more than enough, our imagination could concoct something ominous and darker than we got served with "Prometheus".
For shame Ridley.