not what I was expecting

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2014)

It started out alright, with the camera gliding over the scenics at high speed and the weird guy looking over the waterfall. But soon thereafter, it goes down hill.
I look at the original alien and wonder why it worked so well. The characters, some of them featured less than others, were still people that I cared about. I felt their fear. That is not the case here. There is not really anyone I care about. There are the sincere archaeologists, the stony blue Charlize Theron, the robot Michael Fassbender and the mixture of others (none of whom we care about either).
There are some interesting things at play - how the aliens may have originated, but it's done with the wrong mixture of mystery and clarity.