Terribly bad, so many mistakes and weaknesses ....

Rating: 2/10 (3 June 2012)

As a big Alien fan, I just saw this very promising movie 2 days ago and ... that was a big disappointment in the end ... Instead of giving you a dissertation I will simply list the flaws that made me think that was just crap despite nice visual effects:

some characters are simply useless, like the Asian guy and the old man, and we could skip 2 or 3 more

the way the male main character dies is so stupid: drinking a worm, getting sick, and being burned by the blond bitch ... so what?

one final scene with the old man trying to talk with the giant humanoid is more than ridiculous: a few words and gets the head crushed... so what? nothing original as "aliens" only kill and scream right? they are superior to humans by their technology and science but in the end, try to talk with them and they react as wild beasts with only strange "grrrrrr" as communication skills ... this is pure nonsense. The cyborg spent 2 years learning ancient languages in the ship and after one sentence to the humanoid his head gets crushed. So ridiculous.

the 2 guys (biologist and geologist) getting lost in the caves is also ridiculous, their trip is overly long, we don't hear about them during ages, and when they cry for help, the "captain" (black guy) replies in such stupid ways that they should go to bed and does not even take them seriously! is it about teenagers getting lost in the forest or professionals/experts having minimum sense of duty?

we still don't know why and what the humanoid drank some strange liquid in the first scene and why the hell to we need to see his DNA going wrong in the Niagara Falls? - the major flaw and most stupid element: the humanoids finally wanted to destroy the Earth/humans (us) using biological weapons (the "aliens") BUT in the meantime, all of them (except one sleeping) were destroyed by ... the "aliens" !!! can someone explain to me what that means?

the way the "team" travels around the caves is also ridiculous, they look like teenagers in a haunted house: almost no weapons, no serious protection, no clear plan or coordination between them

finally the first speech of the "scientists" about their discovery of matching patterns telling us that aliens in the sky are calling us is also very weak

Conclusion: except for those unforgivable mistakes, it was okay but no way can it make me forget the "true" Alien movies. This movie has no spirit, just good computer design, but big nonsense going nowhere, we also don't learn anything about the original Aliens. Very disappointing. Quickly forgotten. Waste of money but still better than Evil Dead.