The most "alien" creatures are the humans!

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2012)

I wrote up a long review but it's too long for IMDb guidelines, though after reading some of the other reviews I see that just about everything I wrote is covered, so I'll instead try to write up a summation of the major problems with this film.
1. The humans act in ways that are just not believable, unless the mission was organized intentionally to include stupid, uncaring, nasty people (depending upon which one) that any unbiased member of the audience will not be able to empathize with. Perhaps the worst example of this, though I'm not even sure, is at the end when an archaeologist tells the captain to crash his ship into an alien ship, which will mean he would die. I would have told the archaeologist, who previously had answered a scientific question with the response, "because I want to believe" (or something like that), while clutching the Christian crucifix pendant she was wearing, that I thought she might be delusional. Sorry Mrs. Fox Mulder, your beliefs do not warrant doing something like that (and how does Christianity view suicide?)!
2. The "science" is either ridiculous or it's not clear what the audience is being asked to believe. Other than things already pointed out (that I've read) how is the Shaw character supposed to not die from internal bleeding after a major operation was performed on her abdomen/uterus and she is kicked hard right where the incision was made, flung through the air, lasting hard on the ground, and must've dealt with a massive shock wave from a huge spaceship crashing right next to her?
3. Generally, everything was poorly done except for the special effects. The worst is a muddled plot with apparent allusions to Christianity that is so internally inconsistent as to make one wonder if each paragraph was written by a different writer who didn't have any idea what the person before him or her wrote. Moreover, this film can't even manage to be concise. For example, did the Vickers character add anything, or was she just a minor distraction?
4. Presumably, the audience is supposed to ponder "big questions" while watching this film, or soon thereafter, but the film presents an absurd context for these questions. I read a reviewer over at Rotten Tomatoes say that "Prometheus" makes you consider the possibility that a violent, destructive force created humankind. Perhaps this reviewer should read the Old Testament, in particular the commands to kill everyone in certain towns, leaving no stone unturned. At least that has context. Can someone please teach our youth basic history (not that I'm claiming that the Bible must be taken literally, but rather than such acts were viewed as acceptable by at least many people of the time if told that a supreme being demands it)?
Actually, this film could have been salvaged somewhat if there had been some basic editing done and if the Holloway character would not have been killed off, at least until the very end, so that he could have answered Shaw's "deep" question by pointing out to her that her Christianity is too focused on the "nice" aspects of the New Testament, and that she should have taken the Pentateuch more seriously. I would expect a student in his or her first year of film school to do a better job, again, except for the special effects. I was amazed at how awful it was; it gave me the impression that this was a "mail it in" type effort, for whatever reason.