Disappointing

Rating: 7/10 (6 June 2012)

I was looking forward to this movie.
I was, to some extent, disappointed. The movie at time seemed disjointed and lacking in flow. Another issue was that the parts of the plot were projected well in advance, rendering items that should have been "wow" or "interesting" became "yep, saw that coming a mile off".
By and large the acting was decent, although sometimes I felt that Noomi Rapace was giving a mixed performance. Plus it was obvious right from the start that David was an android.
Visually the movie is great. Ridley Scott avoided the habit that some directors have in a 3D movie of having lots of this come at the viewer for no apparent reason other than to scream "THIS IS 3D" as if we did not already know this.
One thing that struck me is that Ridley, at times, seemed to me making too much of an effort to make it obvious the movie was not a direct prequel of that most excellent of movies, Alien. This caused the storyline to sometimes lurch and trip on it's own feet.
A few times I lost that "this is plausible" feeling. An example is when they find the "vases". They are stepping in the fluid on the floor yet nothing happens. However, at one point on of the characters falls over, with his helmet landing in the fluid, instantly causing it to melt.
One disappointing error was one of the characters saying that mature does not do straight lines. Immediately my mind went to the rocks in the high desert such as the Nazca desert which travel across the desert, leaving shallow, straight trenches behind them