Beautiful nonsense.

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2013)

This movie looked gorgeous and I enjoyed the acting of both Fassbender and Theron but this story was awful. It was so bad I have to say that I consider it one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'm not a harsh critic, I love most movies I see or usually, feel at worst, neutral. I can think of so many questions, it is easier just to list them.
Why did the scientists decide to take their helmets off on a whim? Aren't scientists aware of contamination? Why did the biologist run from a harmless alien corpse? Wouldn't he be jumping for joy at such a find? How did the mapping geologist get lost? Why then did the biologist later approach a live alien with excitement throwing caution to the wind? Why was the alien head being electrocuted without any purpose or caution? Scientists normally try to make as little invasion as possible, especially with a rare alien that might be the most important discovery in human history. Why did the android poison a harmless scientist who was never mean to him without considering the consequence it might have on the whole crew, including himself and his dying boss? Why did the dying/mutating scientist want to be killed so badly by Vickers while he was mutating? What was with a flamethrower rather than a much more effective gun? Why was Shaw over her lovers death so quickly? Why was the android trying to put Shaw in stasis with a rapidly growing alien inside of her that was going to almost certainly kill her and why were the other scientists helping him do this without questioning where it came from or why they were doing this? Why does Vickers own a personal surgery machine made for a male only? How is a cesarean completed without any uterine stitching? It only stitched her skin on the outside. How does Shaw run around after major surgery without dying? Why is no one concerned when she walks in half naked covered in blood with huge stitches? Seriously? No one asks what that is about? Why is Shaw not mad at David for trying to sedate her or Vickers for killing her boyfriend? Why was the head of Weyland corporation secretly asleep on board? It was his ship and his money. His motive did not need to be a secret. Why did the Alien start punching everyone in the face without seeming confused by their presence? He didn't at least think "what are these humans doing here?" It seemed silly. Why were the pilots so willing to kill themselves? They seemed way too happy about it. Why do Shaw and Vickers run the length of a massive falling ship? Why run toward the shadow? Why does Shaw want to go visit a the aliens who were trying to kill humans? She just saw the Jockey smash some humans without listening to any kind of reasoning but thinks they'll listen to her questions?
For the most part, motives and actions are unexplained. Characters have no depth and what happened to them concerned me very little and the scientists just did not act like scientists. I was personally annoyed that the last surviving alien simply massacred everyone without telling the audience anything about what happened. Perhaps they left it open for a sequel? I seriously hope not.