Ridley Scott's masterfarce

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2012)

What a heartbreak for a die-hard Ridley Scott fan. One can only wonder how the same director who made Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, Black Hawk Down would pick up a script as childish as this. It's a thriller that doesn't thrill and is totally devoid of sensibility. It should suffice to say that the most thrilling moments of the movie came halfway through it when the first deaths occur. The rest just petered out like damp fireworks.
Charlize Theron must surely be running out of money to be shooting stuff like this. Noomi Rapace tries but the script doesn't let her. Fassbender will do well to avoid such movies in the future.
We have come to expect a lot from Mr Scott in recent years and with this movie he has picked those expectations up and absolutely ripped them to pieces. I consider Alien to be an OK movie, yet considering that it was made in 1979 it was quite an achievement. And elements such as Ash the cold-blooded android were pleasantly amazing. But the man has not made a sci-fi flick in years and it shows. This is 2012 and just VFX and the label 'science-fiction' do not work anymore.
I would give it a 4/10 but the visuals make it a 5.
And whoever can explain to me the connection between the end of the first scene and the rest of the movie shall get a 100 bucks wired to his account. Or how the Space Jockey from Alien dies inside the human spacecraft in this movie. Or how a woman who has just had a major surgery, hits the ground running the very next moment, literally.