Flawed, yet perfect.

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2012)

Origin story for the 'Alien' species.
Not on the planet from the original film.
We do see an early version of the 'Alien' at the end. Presumably going off to infect another ship close by where a sleeping "Engineer" (our space jockey from 'Alien') will take off, getting only as far as the next planet/moon (LV426) where, at some point, he'll give birth to the Xenomorphs we all know.
As for our dynamic duo at the end, taking off in an 'Engineers' ship to their home planet . . . who knows?
The David character had me laughing with his very dry sense of humor, almost tasteless at times but that was totally the right way to go with him. Perfect casting.
Rest of the cast did well too, it was easy for me to tell who was who, where and when. Film was nice to look at too, no surprise really. Only flaw is that stupid characters still do stupid things but that's the same of most films. Anyone expecting the tone and action of 'Aliens' will be really disappointed. Anyone expecting a thought provoking film about genetics, the origins of man, theology and a really tightly wound story set in the 'Alien' universe won't be.