Illegal Alien : Deport this mess back to Planet LV-426

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2012)

In 1979 Ridley Scott directed a wonderful science fiction thriller named Alien . The plot was not terribly complex yet very effective . The crew unknowingly brings aboard a merciless creature that captures and kills then one-by-one in a Ten little Indians fashion . We all remember the 7 crew members on board the ill- fated Nostromo, Captain Dallas , Ripley , Parker , Ash, Brett , Lambert , Kane , Jones the Cat , and Mother the ship's computer . In 1984 Aliens was released as the sequel to Alien . A good movie that had more action than scares . In 1992 Alien 3 came along and was just plain awful . 1997 brought us Alien Resurrection that was only slightly better than the previous Alien 3 . The Alien vs Predater movies I never bothered to see . So now we move ahead to 2012 and have Ridley Scott back in the driver's seat with the prequel to the 33 year old classic Alien masterpiece called Prometheus . How can we go wrong? First, I would like to say how disappointed I was with the cast . Except for Charlize Theron , I was totally unfamiliar with everyone in the film . I couldn't care less for any of the characters and was very happy to see them being killed off one, two, and three at a time . Something must have occurred while they were writing the screen play for Prometheus . I hate to think Scott would have intentionally want to direct this overly long and confusing mess of a film . The first hour is pure boredom and nothing exciting happens as we travel to and arrive at the forbidden planet . The interior of the Premetheus looked more like the Costa Concordia in her better days than that of the Nostromo . As for monsters , we have lot's of laughable squid like rubber creatures coming out from everywhere . There is a huge and threatening humanoid creature reminiscent of James Arness in the 1953 version of The Thing . We're seen this creature's remains in Alien, and now he's back and has run amok as he battles our crew and another fake alien monster . We also have a very old gentleman that reminded me of the elderly astronaut from 2001 A Space Odyssey . The CGI's looked better at the beginning of the movie but later became too very fake looking . Almost every action or sci-fi movie now-a-days suffers from that same phony video game /cartoon effect . Beautiful Charlize Theron's talents were wasted in this awful movie . She added nothing to the story and could have easily been replaced by Paris Hilton . I'm not sure if she was supposed to be human or android ? Her character had no human emotions and she walked & talked like a robot . While Ridley Scott may have had the recipe for a truly great Alien movie , he didn't have all the proper ingredients . This film failed in several ways . A dumb storyline and a poor choice of unknown actors was my biggest complaint . There was nothing scary about Prometheus . If I could rewrite the script and replace all the actors , I would have used the entire cast of Ghostbusters and made a silly comedy out of this very forgettable movie . I gave this flick only one star because I waited with great anticipation for Prometheus only to be disappointed again . Definitely Not Hot ! Send Prometheus and all future sequels back into deep space and please leave the Alien franchise alone ! .. PWH