Feels ...in draft mode

Rating: 7/10 (6 November 2012)

OKay, I get it. All the where we come from.. who created us .. God and Titan mythology reference. But that's it.
Really like the first 1/2 of the movie and not really like most of the action sequences except the medipod and what happened to the 2 left behinds. And nice the entire story is not a direct link to original Alien and can span else where. (like the announced Prometheus 2) Plot, tech, and protocol holes aside (this is a given for all sci-fi), the writing even some of the action sequences feels like the whole thing is still in 3/4 "draft mode". For example, the ending action sequence with the Engineer feels better paced in the extended scene.
The storyline is again too point to point to my taste, and "everyone" has an agenda OR has a body-counter slasher dying scene to take up time and character space. It didn't dwell like Alien of Blade Runner where it meandered and took long breaths. Would have like to linger more on processes of discovery, taking time on the planet, slowly finding out more intricacies, like the genetics, some secret meaning behind the technology...etc But I guess that would be no action, and have to eliminate the Guy Pierce character.
Albeit the last sequence when the jokey machine gets going it was pretty good. On the other hand when the large C shape ship crashed ..it was really lucking it didn't kill both of the tiny humans on the ground ????
Is it that they fear if pace is too slow it will drive away younger audience and lessen the pie to divide ? Counter example of pace would be Drive, which to me played much to the pace of Alien.
This is a generous 7.