It's this damn dejavu again

Rating: 6/10 (30 June 2012)

I was amazed when I first heard about this project. After watching some trailers I was looking forward for the movie to be released. When this happened, I grabbed a ticket and went for the show.
The beginning of the movie is very well made and creates huge expectations for what is coming. There is a very authentic atmosphere in the film mostly because of the collaboration with this visual artist HR Giger whose creations is all around. Those who have seen work of Giger will identify certain characters and his unearthly persistence with the symbols of sex, mutation and decomposition. The colors of the film are mostly restricted in to Giger's palette.
The problem with this movie is the script, especially the part with the dialogs. We have watched tens of team-movies were the members are killed one by one - someone would expect some kind of evolution. There is nothing original here. The characters are not convincing, maybe because they've been given some kind of attitude and the direction sticks to it canceling any other detail that could make them look more real.
There are also some very un-scientific and irrational behaviors that can not be justified and are not clearly explained, so they looks kind of weird. For professionals, they all look amateurs and some of them idiot. The script is not helping since the action is performed in the most expected way. Apart from the mechanical export of an alien from the body of a person, there is really nothing original here again.
The approach of characters remains in the surface and even the most "touching" scenes are looking indifferent. Some scary scenes look like they were made only as an obligation to the hardcore audience and don't add much to the film.
Well of course this could be the beginning for a series of movies but I would prefer one that could stand by it's own, like previous works of R. Scott.
I believe most of director's fans won't miss this movie. They'll wish they had. Everyone will enjoy Giger's art, CGI and those husky human- like aliens who look like copied from Duran Duran video "Wild Boys". Some 6 stars will be enough.