A huge disappointment. Just another average sci-fi flick (at best).

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2012)

Firstly, I would like to say that I rarely feel compelled to write a review of a movie, but in this case I feel that it is necessary.
I was really eagerly anticipating this movie. Ridley Scott as the director, a very interesting and philosophical concept, explanation regarding the original "Alien"....and....what a waste of time!
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The movie lacks any coherency or depth and the characters' behavior given the circumstances is incredibly unreasonable. OK, I can suspend my disbelief when I am watching a sci-fi movie but not THAT much.
A group of scientists that behave like college kids from fraternity. You reach a planet that may contain the origins of life and the creators of human kind...this stuff might be dangerous and a completely unknown technology/biology...yet they almost feel obligated to touch everything and when some of them encounter an unknown creature, just provoke it to attack.
Then you have the Android that for reasons never explained is trying to sabotage the mission by infecting one of the crew members... Other highlights - one of the characters after performing a self inflicted complicated surgery on the abdominal gets the wound...stapled (yes!) and then runs and jumps around like crazy occasionally remembering to grab her stomach and moan a couple times. People are immobile for weeks after a procedure like this!!! Then, at at the end of the movie some characters run from a spaceship crashing down on them. It is oval shaped, but instead of running sideways they try to outrun it to its length - SERIOUSLY?
With all that said, it's not the plot holes that make this movie so bad. No character depth. No exploration of the mythology whatsoever. No real mystery. The development and flow of the plot is not fluent. Just events stacking on top of each other. So much potential and possibilities ruined. Awful...just awful. It does not really deserve 1 star, but with current rating of 7.8 this movie doesn't deserve anything higher than 6.