Don't get your hopes up

Rating: 4/10 (2 June 2012)

This movie was a huge disappointment. I knew it wasn't going to be an Alien movie as first planned, yet I still expected a nail-biting action/suspense movie in outer space: expectations failed. This is a visually strong movie about the existence of mankind. Nothing more, unfortunately a lot less: cheap plot tricks, soap-opera like revelations, no character depth or motivation and some very incoherent actions.
As both an Alien- as an horror fan I enjoyed AvP a lot more. That says a lot. For SF I would say Star Trek did a better justice to the genre. I'm very glad this movie doesn't use the Alien title nor that Sigourney played a guest role because it would be a shame on the particular franchise that started it all.