Great premise but that's it.

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2012)

The only good thing in this movie is the start WHY? because it answers questions.
Reading the FAQ here and watching the trailers is just about enough of the story that you don't need to watch it. The only part you'd be missing is the self-surgery part.(Fifth element deal) Wait for the DVD.
The human acting is pretty bad except for the android (he was good) The sets were almost great. The CG is great. The story is (dog yelping sounds). The plot is (zombie moans).
They could have expanded on a lot of things but they didn't. The movie leaves the viewer so dumbfounded at the staggering amount of questions left unanswered. Also I was not shown a younger Weyland speaking at an audience in the movie.
When you hype a movie this much and then surreptitiously reveal that it's a prequel to something great long ago, who are the people that would go to watch it? The fans of the original! And for all the time the movie has been advertised you'd think it would be a 3 hour epic but nope.
Why can't they make films like 2001 AD anymore. This is basically the same plot. AI goes rogue endangering crew, crew sent out to explore alien artifact, piano, old man and deaths in new and interesting ways. But this movie is mind-numbing halfway.
You thought the geologist was a mercenary. The biologist freaked out from corpses but wants to hug an alien worm(hostile)? The co pilots are clones of a different color. Charlize didn't play the piano though she had one on a spaceship (where heavy is bad). The 'brother' pilot gets booty. The post cryo scene."I'm moody man! I just slept for 2 years". Magically breathable air scene. Cliché after cliché after cliché after cliché. The sequence of character death was predictable.
I've been sleeping for 2 years with the threat death! I just woke up at a new planet! There's intelligent life stuff, trees! rivers! I getting paid! I would be really really really excited.
She went after the SJ's planet, fine, show us at least the arrival. Those nice red space suits, wear them. How does the android know all that? (apparently he didn't know enough, got his head ripped right off)
The movie didn't explain the hypothesis they offered. They could have tied in a lot more to the old ones but they didn't. They borrowed a lot from the first Alien in terms of setting but failed to bring it all together. The soundtrack from the trailers is ridiculous, there is nothing like that in the movie to justify it except for a few brief moments.
Read the FAQ, thats the whole movie minus the pretty pictures. Oh and I had only my appendix remove and could walk right for 4 days. She had her stomach cut, !@#$ removed, stapled shut for about 6 six inches long. And then goes off planet to chase aliens. ACTION!