Convinced it was about to be amazing. Concluded that it wasn't.

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2012)

As stated by others before me, the first half of the movie was very promising. The very first few minutes of it had me thinking that it would be a great movie actually! And I kept that thought until about an hour had passed and things started going downhill.
You almost get the feeling that people got a little too excited when they realized that they had written a great first half of a script and then went out to celebrate, big time, then got back to work the same night and finished everything while being drunk.
Fans of the other Alien movies get a couple of questions answered but, also as stated by others before me, will be left with even more questions and unfortunately, if one spends some time thinking about some of the events that happens in the movie, will probably get quite annoyed when they realize that certain things doesn't make any sense at all.
Most of the characters are extremely stereotypical too and you never get any real sense of who they are, which is unfortunate because at least two of them are quite interesting. This would be David (Michael Fassbender) and Vickers (Charlize Theron). Michael Fassbender does a superb performance as David, which for me at least is the most interesting of the characters. He definitely deserve attention for his role in this movie because he was flawless. Charlize Theron also pulled off a good performance as Meredith Vickers but I got the feeling they didn't dig deep enough into her story and you are left wondering what just happened at times when you get a short flash of what her character is like but then the scene just abruptly ends. This happens a few times throughout movie.
I must say I was surprised by how well Noomi Rapace did as Elizabeth Shaw. I've never really understood why people are so excited about her but after watching this I can definitely recognize that she is a great actress. However, her character is undeveloped and at times some of the things Shaw is saying puts a frown on your face because they are so cheesy.
But, it is not a bad movie. For me it was a big promise and a great concept that could have been a great movie. As stated above, the first half of the movie I was convinced that it would turn out to be a new science fiction masterpiece but I couldn't help but feel like they lost track of where they were going with it and just started coming up with really bad excuses to explain some of the big questions people have had about the Alien universe before. The ending also felt like a bad excuse, but this time to try to make up for the fact that they had turned the second half of the movie into a mess and they somehow had to save it.
So in the end what you get is a great start with good acceleration and you have a good ride with stunning visuals and an interesting plot but that's as far as it goes. Your ride runs out of gas and desperately attempts to go somewhere where you can get more so that you'll be able to continue on as well as it starts off but, once it slows down it never picks up again.
I almost feel like I should give it less but 6.5/10 is the most I can give it which is a shame because the first half of the movie is so well written and extremely engaging. Worth a watch though.