A terrible disappointment!

Rating: 5/10 (3 June 2012)

This is a review of the movie, so it will contain spoilers.
Let's concentrate on the good stuff. There are very watchable performances from Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. Idris Elba does well even though he hasn't got much to work with.
The design of the film is very good. Scott and Giger deliver all the quasi bio-mechanical ick that you would wish from a film set in the 'Alien' universe.
But the script...it's an abomination. I say 'script', because I note that there are two writers and this incoherent mess looks like they shot two competing and conflicting stories and then welded them together as haphazardly as the staples holding Noomi Rapace's stomach in place.
Very little of what goes on is at all coherent. The casting of Guy Pearce as an old guy under pounds of unconvincing latex is frankly bizarre, unless the idea was that at some stage his character was supposed to become 'young' again.
The cast other than those above really struggle with dreadfully underwritten characters. There is an incredible feeling during the movie that everyone is just shooting scenes in the vain hope that something will turn up in subsequent editing.
A terrible disappointment. I thought that this might be a great movie. I really didn't expect an outright bad one.