Professional scientists travelled billions of miles to make friends with evil snakes, run away from a dead body and give up after being there for only a day

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2015)

Awesome movie. I know it's had plenty of bad reviews because of all the questions left open but I really enjoyed this film anyway. Sure, the script writing does look like it was done by a group of five years olds and this has got to be the most stupidest group of scientists I have ever seen before. But you never know, maybe the people in the future are just a bunch of blunt idiots who take really huge risks at the worst moments but are way too cautious when it comes to minor things.
But I really don't see what all the big fuss is about since you see that in most films these days anyway. I mean. How about we all just sit down and watch a movie for once and maybe...USE OUR BRAINS? Some of these questions really are easy to answer when you actually think about it carefully...you know, get past your ABCs and start counting to ten. So many cliché films these days spoon feed you all the answers and this has spoiled us rotten when it comes to films like this. Now we're always expecting answers to be given out right away and it destroys movies.
This movie really does have some gorgeous scenes. The CGI is absolutely beautiful and my eyes were nearly exploding from all the amazing detail. It's one of the most prettiest films I have ever seen. Makes Avatar look like Pacman. You have beautiful landscapes and gorgeously yet gruesomely created creatures expected from an Alien film.
This is not anything like the original Alien movies from the 80s. In fact it goes better as a stand alone film rather than a prequel. The only thing linking it to the original films is the engineer from the first film (the dead one they see on the planet) and of course the Alien like creature at the end. So pushing the other movies aside, lets say this is a good film.
Of course, the scientists are complete idiots. I understand why they didn't explain the mission until they actually arrived at the planet, but the people didn't exactly seem too shocked about their suicide mission. Honestly, David showed the most emotions and he was an android! Ah David, sweet and not so innocent David. This is the first time that I've seen Michael Fassbender in a movie and he quickly became my favourite character even though he turned out to be a huge nuisance to the other crew on the ship.
And now on with the scientists. Most of them were completely. I mean, we have a biologist who's scared of a 2000 year old dead body but is perfectly fine trying to stroke the clearly dangerous looking snake. What sort of biologist is scared of a dead body? Even I would be more interested than scared if I saw that! And lets not forget the geologist who comes with tracking balls, maps and GPS but STILL MANAGES TO GET LOST! These two really bring stupidity to a whole new level. They kind of reminded my of Shaggy and Scooby from Scooby Doo actually; while the rest of the team are off solving puzzles, these two are always goofing off elsewhere.
And of course we have the Charlize Theron's character. And like in every movie with an evil woman role involve, this evil woman is only in the movie to needlessly mess things up for everyone else for no particular reason other than the fact that she's a nasty person and wants to show it.
Yeah, there are a lot of questions but these are easily answered. And there are a few stupid and irrelevant parts in the film that just make the plot seems stupid but I really did enjoy this film, ignoring all the bad reviews it has had because it is actually worth a watch.