Just another Alien movie.

Rating: 5/10 (1 June 2012)

This was the movie I was hoping to be the best of the year. I'd not watched any trailer for it (except for the viral videos), and thought it was going to be a cerebral experience about the search for man's origins.
The opening scene was excellent, smart and visually stunning. Could see a slight homage to 2001 A Space Odyssey's time-warp ending with the panning of early earth landscapes and mountains. The scene of an alien seeding the earth set the scene. However, my heart dropped with the meeting of the crew of the spacecraft that had just reached the remote planet. They were a bunch of the most unlikeable characters you could imagine. It didn't make sense to me that a journey that would last for years would be made up of people who had never met, were unprofessional and with motivations that are totally incongruent with space travel. These are supposed to be astronauts exploring new territories but they acted more like tour guides and disgruntled employees just doing their regular day job. The rest of the film was a remake of Alien with the brown haired female character taking on the Sigourney Weaver warrior role.
In any reasonable future, none of those characters would have ever been chosen for such a space mission. The only character that had any depth was the robot.
This movie could have been so much more, so much more intelligent, so much more engaging, but it answered no questions and it just didn't make any logical sense.