Fiction without the Science and Brain Holes

Rating: 4/10 (13 September 2012)

I only suggest that you watch this film if you are a fan and only if you want to stay on board with the franchise. Even then it will infuriate you...
So let's start:
I don't really know what the producers are thinking, because like it or not it all starts and ends with them. Do not blame the writers or the directors.
Do they really think that our IQ is bellow average and we don't have a little idea of how things work?
For example: A trillion dollar (credit) mission to outer space in the search of alien life, has a pot-head geologist and for his pipe uses the air canisters of his space suit. The first choice for a serious scientist, for a most important scientific project is a punk rock pot head coward geologist who uses expensive equipment to smoke weed. Spot-on Hollywood. Good laughs. It's like no movie can be made without a stoner these days.
Lot's of things that the crew does seems that they do it to see if someone dies, like the removal of the helmets at the first sign of oxygen, playing with aggressive alien organisms, touching alien substances with their fingers and a couple or three more scenes that don't fit in scientific cautionary behavior or any normal behavior for that matter.
All the science from the "science-fiction" has gone out the window for the sake of super-simplification and collateral damage because it would be "too much" for our super-simplified, gang-ho action, violence loving brains.
This is the idea Hollywood has about us?
Also there must be at least 30 to 45 minutes of missing footage explaining all the evil stuff the robot and the space-jockeys do. Instead they are hanging in the air for us to make our own assumptions. Many of the basic elements of the story-line and as well as what makes this movie a vague tie-in with Alien are left to our own imagination. Well everyone enjoys a little brain teaser but they left us with a brainstorm of possible events. Instead of the movie working for you and filling in the gaps you end up confused. So...
1 star for H.R.Giger.
1 star for the actors which they are doing a pretty good job with what they have (NOT all of them).
1 star for the direction.
and 1 star for the visuals. (NOT the CGI)
If this was a sci-fi action film that had nothing to do with Alien I would perhaps put a more fair review. But it is not. I had high expectations from the director of the original film but I think that he gave in to the production values of the money grabbing stereotypical films of today's Hollywood. I don't believe in criticism but sometimes you can't just shake your head and say "It's OK. Next time".