Because I wanted to say it's not all bad

Rating: 7/10 (27 September 2012)

Max 1000 words? These God "like" creatures seen to be seeding life on a planet that happened to be earth then hung around long enough to see life evolve and get drawn on walls by the natives.
Only to develop a weapon...intended to kills us or grow an army of Xenomorphs? Clever. Very clever. But then who is it they fear so much that they envisioned a plague of aliens was the best way to address them? OK, I appreciate what he (Ridley) was trying to achieve but where it fell down is the placement of technology time-line against the evolution of the "Alien" character. The weaponry in this film is abysmal only to be replaced in "Aliens" some years later with kick-ass military weapons. Are these people not from the same weapon wielding monkey planet? Have you seen the guns we have? 100 years later and you bring a flamethrower to the fight? Similarly the android/synthetic life-form in this one is way more advanced but less human sociable? He is given the tools to spy on people's thought processes while they sleep? Whereas the one in the "Alien" film was morehuman?...but less advanced. Uh yesmini fail? Anyway most of the other reviews are correct the film doesn't stand on its own two feet and I saw "Stargate SG1" in there and many other SCI-FI references but what really annoys the hell out of me is when scientists spend an eternity looking for the origins of life and then become disappointed when OMG it's not an omnipotent awe-inspiring super mega benevolent supreme being.
It's just another alien like us.
Grow up people, God doesn't like you poking holes in his hard work and spreading doubt. God is the ultimate intergalactic space engineer! Just accept it as you can't change it! Oh and there WAS a military presence on the human spaceship but all the fighting was done by the ship's crew who obviously didn't know the first thing about combat. Neither do I for that matter but I would have survived much longer! Is it too late to recall this film and try again? Otherwise it was very entertaining in the humorous way (run from crashing spaceship!! In the direction it's falling!! Wait a billion tons of ship will be stopped from crushing me bythat small outcropping of rock!!" Sigh