Ridley Scott, you used to make good movies... :/

Rating: 1/10 (5 June 2012)

This movie is made of painfully cliché lines and plot devices, flat characters, ridiculous plot, lots of 'oh I can't have babies' 'emotional'rubbish and tons and tons of pseudo-scientific crap. From the start the plot doesn't make sense - how did the 'scientists' get from the fact that some cave paintings contain a representation of a certain configuration of celestial bodies to the idea that something came from this area of space, let alone that this something wants us to come and visit, let alone that this something engineered humans? Completely unjustified reasoning. While on the mission, the characters make every possible mistake they can, from 'oh yea, there's oxygen here, let's take our masks off before checking if there are any pathogenic microorganisms in the air', to 'ooooh, look at that horrible black ooze coming out of those vessels we don't know anything about - can I lick it please please please?'. The whole 'mission' is just really weird - you would expect people who go on a mission together to actually work together, or at least have a stable chain of command - but no, they bitch at each other all the time. The rest of the movie is basically a set of pseudo-scientific curiosa (let's put some electricity through this 2000 years old severed head, it will come back to life!), pseudo-emotional bullshitting that is meant to give characters some depth but only makes them look stupid and unbelievable, tons of belief-based unjustified inferences unworthy of anyone who took a year of any undergraduate science course, and cliché lines of the 'we have to do it or there will be no Earth' kind. Not only this, but the entire movie promotes the common 'belief over science' attitude which I find quite appalling. The fact that it's the so-called 'scientists' in the movie who are the most naive and thoughtless people, is simply disgraceful. Don't watch it, it's a waste of time, and definitely don't pay for it.