Oh where do I begin -

Rating: 1/10 (24 June 2012)

Spoiler starts now! while this film was beautiful to look at that alone could carry it for the hour and 20 minutes of pure crap writing and acting. I'm not even going to get into the flaws or insane actions of supposed learned people. It is true it is a prequel and it is a poor one at best. Alien was a great film and not just for the horror, it was great for the acting and development of the characters. This movie has none of that...not one little bit. In the end, you want a origins store to give you the ORIGINS of the story!!!!you get none of that either. you are only given a poor plot devise that leaves you with too many questions like - Did they create us?if so why do they want then to kill us? Also if they did create us then how would we know to write on cave walls were they left the ships filled with death. I am sure that there is another 20 minutes of back story on the editing floor but it still will not fill these holes! And why in gods name would you go about killing anything or anyone by making this alien infestation/changeling/can not be killed -over populating menace like the "Alien" to begin with!. The point of killing off anyone is to kill them - not leave in their place a race of self replicating, super killing creatures. Not to mention that if they can kill off your enemy that makes them more of a threat then the enemy your TRYING TO KILL OFF.
It is clear that Scott has lost his sight for telling the difference between what is good and what just looks good! it the end he let the writer just steal the reason we wanted the aliens in the first two movies (as a weapon for the company) and made that the answer to the origins of the aliens (a weapon). He tossed in the "they made us" thing to give it some depth but never answered why then would they want to wipe us out. In fact, he never really answered any questions at all. I know it is just a movie!!! but... Ridley Scott was always one of my favorite directors but he has committed the biggest sin of all, dumping on his great work and not even having the good sense to keep us engaged enough to not notice.
Now, if you want a good alien origins idea I'll give you one. We were created as a "wet" device to mature the aliens in (a host body to bring them to a better state) and we developed into our own independent race. The alien developed organically and have a symbiotic relationship with the race that created us for them. Due to harsh conditions the aliens died off on earth but not elsewhere. As slave hosts, we had some knowledge as did the creator drones (hence the cave art). We could then develop more and go off looking for them not knowing what we would find t-at least then the reveal at the end would have been something less expected. By the way, I came up with that in 10 minutes...we've been waiting 33 years for this movie, the least they could have done was more than this.