Not impressed

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2012)

Warning! This Review contains a number of Spoilers.
One of the problems this movie has is probably that everybody seeing it has quite high expectations that the movie can't fulfill. But even if you forget about Alien what's left is not even a good SciFi Movie on it's own. There are too many inconsistencies and it never manages to build up any tension. Visually it's beautifully shot, but i can also look at a pretty picture, at least it would not bore me with an incoherent storyline. I've no idea why this had to be in 3D though. It doesn't add any depth to the picture nor does it draw you into the movie.
I don't want to give too much away, but just a few things that really bothered me. 1st of all they sort of give the space jockey a back story. But then again this poses more unanswered questions. Why was the cargo of the original space jockey so different from the one shown in Prometheus? In Alien it were organic eggs containing living organisms ready to hatch. This suggested that the space jockey himself was an explorer who just happened to load the wrong cargo. Then here it is some gooey stuff that apparently creates life or something. So here they engineered stuff that supposedly created the species that was carried in the space ship from Alien? Then again here we have a military facility on a remote planet that seems to be abandoned for thousands of years. Was the original space jockey also heading for earth trying to destroy all life? Because this seems to be the sole purpose of this species. But then why are there many other space ships on this planet when apparently one of them is enough to destroy life on earth?
What also baffled me was the scene in the surgical chamber. There's one person knocking down medical staff then running around with a stapled wound on her abdomen and nobody seems to care. I don't even want to go into why she's still able to walk. But what was the purpose of this scene when it doesn't seem to affect or interest anybody? OK, it prepared for the far fetched ending, but at this point it all was so ludicrous already i wouldn't have wondered if there was a gigantic squid just popping out of nowhere.
Then what purpose did the Holo recordings have? What did the engineers record? Everything that was going on on this ship? Only exciting moments? The best of dying crew members? And David just happened to manage to play the relevant parts of what has been recorded. That makes sense.
I could go on an on because this movie was just full of stupidity. Compared to this Avatar was a masterpiece in story telling. I'd expected more from Ridley Scott.