High hopes, big disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (1 June 2012)

Warning: this review is full of spoilers.
First of all I'm a big fan of Ridley Scott and especially the Alien Anthology.. Whatever, I'll just cut the crap and get into the good and bad:
The Good:

First 60 minutes of the movie was mostly awesome and got me really pumped up and excited. At that point I really thought Ridley pulled it off.

Beautiful visuals, opening scene was breathtaking!

The "engineers". Good stuff, well done original characters.

The Bad:

Last 60 minutes. The story and the characters just fell apart. Short and simple: the story and the characters were not believable.

Main characters. I didn't feel any connection or empathy with the characters. Worst of all was the yoga (old guy), simply ridiculous. I could not help but laugh whenever he was in a scene. Also David must be the worst robot/cyborg in movie history.

Poorly executed scenes. Example: C-Section. Come on Ridley, this was ridiculous.

The end. Main character (Elizabeth) 'demands' the captain to crash into the alien ship. The crew is OK with suicide, no problem... Then later she flies away with another alien ship that is surely carrying "death" on board. Ridiculous. When she walked back to David I thought she was going to smash his head or something to prevent anything leaving the planet, but no.

This movie is full of clichés. "I'm not here to make friends", everything about the captain etc... I really thought Ridley would come up with something original instead.

Small things that make no sense. Example in the end Fifield sitting in a ridiculous position outside the ship before going bananas. Was this meant to be scary? Also just before Prometheus crashing into the alien ship you see the captain in front of a $5 shaky plastic control panel. Did they run out of money?

Directing, acting etc... Im too tilted to comment on these. In the bottom line if you like old classics by Ridley, don't have high hopes for Prometheus. I don't want to totally destroy the Alien saga, so I wont go and see the follow-up for this (there is more to come). Ridey is doing to Alien what Lucas did to Star Wars.
And anyone claiming this isn't a Alien movie is wrong. It's a prequel plain and simple.
Now to get totally wasted.