A typical, uninspired prequel, a lost opportunity to make history, but at he same time a great chance for.....

Rating: 2/10 (19 October 2012)

There isn't much to say about this movie, since almost everything has been already written in many previous (some of them absolutely hilarious) reviews.
But nevertheless, it certainly does not worth any rating above 5.
...7.2??? For this?? While "Alien" and "Aliens" are rated with 8.5 each??? Come on people.. rate with your mind, not by your heart....people lose time and money here, so let's all be honest to them! This movie lacks script, lacks inspiration, lacks common scientific sense, lacks normal human behavior development, lacks actors, lacks all those qualitative characteristics that Alien's Universe had in plenty and, long time ago, in some theaters far far away, grabbed our minds..
This movie has plenty of excellent cgi with some of Ridley Scott's unique ambiance, but these of course aren't enough to make a good movie.
What a great example of losing chance to actually make history! But this movie (like others) certainly provides to the moderators of IMDb a great opportunity. And that is to categorize ratings by large age groups (eg up to 25 y.o. and over 25 y.o. or something like that).
In this way, someone would have a more objective look on the critics expressed here, and on the other hand, rating would certainly be more representative..
I see ratings of 8 and 9 stars for this "masterpiece"...I guess these same reviewers must have rated "Alien" or "Aliens" with 15 stars or even 20...otherwise there is a huge gap in sense of measure here, isn't it?
I strongly recommend to anyone who wants to watch this film, to watch it at home. He will certainly earn money, and if he is lucky, he might fall asleep on his sofa before he sees a rolling spaceship chasing people.