It could be better, it could be more believable...

Rating: 8/10 (23 July 2012)

Pros : Great landscapes, natural look, not CG, great design of alien interiors.
Cons : too much, too unbelievable scenes :
SPOILER :
1) they care about atmosphere chemical composition, but they ignore potential biohazard and take their helmets off.
2) Alien growth is unbelievably fast. Noomi Rapace learns that she is pregnant with alien, so she undergo an abortion on automated surgery device - when she strips off, her belly is flat, when machine takes out the alien fetus it looks like weighting 10 kg or more... The fetus remains in operating chamber and after one day it is big as elephant - what have it eaten there to grow so fast ? Bandages ? Iodine ? This is just STUPID! Noomi Rapace after abortion (removing of 10kg alien) has a 20 cm cut in her belly but she is fit enough to go to aliens ship in after 2 hours, and to run and jump like wind after few more hours. Buhaha !
3) Huge Alien ship is rammed by Prometheus ship, collision looks like taking place at 50km/h. Alien ship drops from altitude of more than 1km, but when it hurts the ground it is pretty much intact. Even the android head inside the alien ship remains unhurt in the same place... Total nonsense. If Alien ship would be so fragile (no force field) to be destroyed by the collision with Prometheus, it would transform to dust when hitting the ground.
4) Android Dave is learning hindu, and after those lessons he is able to read alien texts, to unlock alien secret codes and communicate with aliens... And to operate their ship. LOL !
5) They land on a random spot on alien planet (they didn't knew where to look for aliens)and they land exactly where aliens base was...
6) Trip from earth took 2.5 year, when the closest star system is 4 light years from earth.
7) Aliens were engineering quite bizarre weapons on the planet (monsters) instead of making just some simple viruses or just nukes (cheaper, easier, more efficient)
8) Prometheus aerodynamic shape would make it burn when entering atmosphere (it even haven't decelerated from lightspeed)
9) IQ and mentality of most of team members is closer to one you could expect from a plumber or gangster than a member of space mission to another planet costing billions $.
10) Having a light inside helmet looks cool, but it would prevent the guy inside to see what is around (due to light reflexes on glass - if you don't believe, try to drive your care with interior light during the night)
11) DNA of Alien Engineers is identical to contemporary humans - so why chimpanzees DNA is 98% similar to human? Were chimpanzees, Neanderthals, gibbons and Australopithecus also engineered by aliens - and what about mice and cats ? We share a LOT of DNA with all lifeforms on earth. The whole idea that humans were engineered by aliens to be exactly like aliens is a pure nonsense. ------------
But it could be worse - the plus is that they don't speak English with aliens (as it would be the case in Star Trek ;-) ) They use their pressure suits and helmets sometime (as it wouldn't be the case in Star Wars) And there are no laser guns shots.
In all it is the best, the most spectacular move from Alien series, better than Star Wars, better than Avatar, but it is not near close to Kubrick Space Odyssey 2001. Sadly too dumb. Too much bang, not enough thought and spirit.