A Very Good Film. Imaginative. A Few Minor, Niggling Flaws.

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2012)

After reading a few reviews, it seems I have seen a few things in this film, others haven't. Maybe i'm giving it credit where none is due.
The four things which gave me reason for annoyance are: 1 - Why did the two women at the end run away from the rolling alien spaceship? Why didn't they just run to the side? Job done. Simple. 2 - If you are going to pay a lot of money for a good actor, don't give her a crap death. Charlize Theron: squished. Rubbish. 3 - Give your film a proper ending, if only for the poor audience. Flying off into space looking for answers is not an ending; it's an ellipsis... 4 - Weapons of Mass Destruction? All you do by mentioning the dreaded W.M.D. is make the audience think of Team America: World Police and Hans 'Bricks'. This is why Green Zone didn't work as a movie. Yes, the aliens W.M.D.s in this film, but why not refer to them as biological warfare or genetically constructed or genetically modified weapons? "Hey, Hans Bricks- you're bustin' my balls, guy."
The only bad performance was the grumpy Sean Harris's character. Maybe this is the fault of bad direction or bad acting. I don't know.
Michael Fassbender was faultless. Brilliant. You never knew at any point what his motivations were or who his allegiances were with... if any.
I loved the 'Space Jockey' aliens right from the very start of the film. They were intimidating and much more powerful than the humans. A nemesis is only worthy if it is far more powerful than the protagonists. Big tick! And I'm happy we didn't get to know why they did what they did. There is always room for enigma in these films. No need to answer all questions. Give us something to think about.
The alien at the very end, I am guessing, is not a progenitor of the Xenomorphs as we saw in the 'Alien' films, but a different form of genetic/biological weapon as created by the Space Jockeys.
I thought the technology was very believable and at times so creative, it left me smiling at what i was watching.
Maybe they could have used an old actor instead of Guy Pearce, as the only time we saw him young, was in promotion videos for the film. Maybe he will come back in the next films? Maybe as Weyland Progeny, or maybe as a robot?
I love that the Alien universe is being explored in this imaginative and different way. I look forward to any further episodes. I just wish they had come along before Aliens vs Predator: Requiem gave a kidney punch to the whole operation. Totally inconsistent - acid for blood only when it suited the film-maker and so on...
Go watch and enjoy!