Visuals and basic plot great, actors also, but the story in detail: Retarded, resulting in missed opportunities

Rating: 7/10 (23 September 2012)

This movie is sort of a mixed bag. I had some high expectations and these were disappointed, but the movie is by any means not bad nor a complete failure, but for having such a potential, too much being missed or ruined.
Let's start with the good things: - The visuals are amazing, the design and filming is near perfect. Great to watch and a cinematographic experience, a "true Ridley Scott". - Also the basic plot is fantastic, something new and different from what Sci-Fi cinema produced lately, which a lot of potential for further exploration and new story lines. - The actors were all well chosen, a great assemble to work with. - Music and effects make the movie a complete experience.
Now the bad things: - The story is simply stupid in detail and could have been written by an average 4th grader - which would have been some sort of excuse for its missed opportunities. - The only person in this movie which acts and reacts remotely normal is the female protagonist, all the other people act too stupid for being real. - Nothing in this movie fits together if you begin to watch careful and think about it. Everything is wrong, the story doesn't fit together and one logical mistake follows the next. And I don't mean the usual stupidity you often see in movies, which can be ignored if you accept it's all just made up. No, it is this one going too far with its logical failures and mental dead ends.
Some reviews say the movie has many lose ends or is leaves to much questions unanswered: NO, that's not it! Oh my gosh, it's the story, acting of the protagonists and answers being so incredibly stupid which leaves us unsatisfied!
That said, I gave the movie an "7" for being still enjoyable and technically great work, but I want to add something for the director: Change the story writers for the next one or be at least more critical about their work!
Because this movie, with this visuals and basic plot, had the potential for becoming another classic and still a second part might be it, but if the next movie will be as stupid with the storyline in detail, it will be just another missed opportunity for more.
Make people acting realistic, make up a story which fits with its premises and is comprehensible as well as coherent, forming a complete fantastic package.
Just some food for thoughts - just think about it when watching the movie: The "engineers" are so intelligent and "over the top", yet they make one mistake after the next, act stupid and use ineffective means to do what exactly? The geologist is there to explore the structure - but then...? Some people are afraid of dead alien bodies, but in the next moment, in a much more dangerous situation, they are not afraid of, nor careful when...? You are a scientist on an epic journey, but you act like a bored teenager who likes to rebel against any authority and gives a ....?
For a "Ridley Scott" movie it was a disappointment, even if considering all its merits.