Inexplicably Bad

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2014)

It's got everything going for it - one of the best directors, unparalleled subject material and a huge budget, but even so, it's shockingly bad. It's so difficult to comprehend, I'm even going as far as noting down the names of the writers in an attempt to avoid their future work: Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof (who?). I can't believe Ridley Scott is entirely responsible for this mish-mash of a film.
How did they get is so wrong? I swivelled in my armchair and raised a middle finger to the screen in personal protest, scoffing to myself, after about an hour. It was boring and hugely insulting to the intelligence.
Getting back to cold facts; the film and its idiocies didn't offend me as much as the horrific, hollow acting. Going back to 1979's 'Alien', the acting offsets the tension through constant bantering/bickering between crew members, sexual innuendo, incompetence, laziness, etc. The acting and interaction is a pivotal point of the original film because it distracts us from the true horror lurking in the dark. Here, it flat-lines. Noomi Rapace was out of her depth and Charlize Theron completely non-existent in a pointless part. Only Michael Fassbender was any good.
I'm not going to mention everything else (lying) such as the ridiculous, obnoxious scientists, panicking one minute, overly confident the next. The absence of safety measures and protocol when handling foreign objects, spontaneous opening of airlocks, taking helmets off in space, not using quarantine procedures, rash experiments on potentially hazardous specimens... it just goes on and on - a real headache of insulting inaccuracies and glaring omissions.
Yes, I hated it, and it's not scary or tense at all. It's technically superb but devoid of quality acting and intelligent believability.
I want to add to the scorn and criticism for this film because it deserves it.