Awful characters

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2012)

Why would anyone pick such an unskilled, unprofessional, untrained, selfish, ignorant and stupid crew to go on a mission to make the first contact of mankind with alien life? A group of drunk college students would have more chance to succeed in this mission than the crew of the Prometheus. This is why the movie script feels so fake to me. I just couldn't empathize with any of the characters. They all seem oddly familiar with the technology of their suits, the ship, the communication devices, everything; as if they have been using it all for a lifetime but then again they are screwing things up all the time. Isn't people supposed to go trough a grueling training before being sent on a potential suicide mission? And how do they end up in that mission anyway? When they are receiving the mission briefing nobody knows why are they there except for the couple of anthropologists or whatever they are. Did their employers just told them: "hey, here's a bunch of money, just get on that ship, sleep for 2 years and once you arrive to that alien planet we don't know sh*t about, you'll receive more instructions". And then they proceed to land and take advantage of every opportunity they can get their hands on to die a screaming, painfully and horrible death. The whole script/ movie seems built around the showing off of the visual elements, which are stunning by the way, but fall short of making this movie enjoyable.
I'm sorry but after watching/ reading sci-fi for years, I was expecting much more of this movie. I couldn't even finish it.