Outrageous

Rating: 1/10 (30 October 2012)

I wanted to see this movie so much, just because of the title (which I thought hinted at some really interesting story) and because of some posters I had seen (Which showed really nice aesthetics).
Other than that, I was completely unprejudiced: I had no idea it was a Ridley Scott movie, I had no idea it was a prequel to Aliens.
I lamented not having been able to see it in the theater, but was happy enough to get it on BluRay. And when it started I stopped watching 7 minutes into the movie because I though I needed to see this with a whole bunch of friends. It seemed like what was going to come was going to be epic.
What a letdown! The only word for this movie is "Aggravating"
1) The loopholes in the plot are too many to enumerate. They exist in every scene, some are just stupid and inoffensive, but many are very damaging to the story.
2) The whole point of SciFi is to build believable and marvelous fantasies based on the wonders of science. This movie is about a spatial adventure in which they let stupid scientist come along. Oh my God the were so stupid all of them! They kept screwing everything up!
3) Again, SciFi has to be somewhat believable in order to ignite your brain. In this movie you can have abdominal surgery, suit up and go fight monsters. Normally you are willing to take some bull from bad scifi, but this is too much. It's like they don't even like science :'(
4) They have a perfect setting to tap questions about science, the concept of humanity, faith, evolution, God, endeavor, loyalty, big corporations, Love, immortality, greed, ... But they never get into any of this topics. So much wasted potential. What's really frustrating is that they kindasorta bring these questions into the conversation only to answer them with a corny, clichéd line (most of them literally from other movies, as a form of inappropriate homage to them).
5) You could remove every character but two and the story wouldn't change. This movie could have lasted about twenty minutes.
The more I remember, the more I hate it. The reason for this is that is not just another bad scifi movie, it's because they had the chance for one of the best, most meaningful stories that could have been told and they decided to make a horrible piece of non-action, non-scifi, non-character film.
One and only good thing: Aesthetics. But not good enough to sit through it.