Disgustingly awful

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 2012)

Let me also express my horror after watching this movie. It really makes you wonder what Ed Wood would have been able to do with 130M dollars at his hands...
We are supposed to believe that a trillion dollar mission designed to make first contact with an alien civilization is crewed by people who have never trained together. Who have never even met. When the resident biologist tries to strike off a conversation with the geologist he's met with "I'm not here to be your FRIEND, I'm just here to MAKE MONEY". Perhaps this was a smart reference to the rationale of the characters behind this movie?
If you're going to create characters that are at risk of meeting their maker in the course of your movie, at least make us care whether they live or die. None of the characters have any depth to speak of, they are incompetent, useless, obnoxious, moronic, outright hostile, or simply extras that serve absolutely no purpose. This stuff is basic. You spend a 130M dollars and there's no one in the creative process that says, OK, so let me get this straight...at all?
Some time into the expedition they find what they were looking for, a dead humanoid alien. The geologist is not impressed. He's off to look for rocks. Fsck the dead alien.
Really? You've just made the greatest discovery in the history of mankind and...you're bored?
The idiocy goes on and on and on after that. Apparently the discovery of an alien civilization has so disappointed Holloway that he decides to drink himself under the table. This provides the vehicle for David the android to infect Holloway with the organic black goo he's found. Why? Your guess is as good as mine.
What does the black goo do, exactly? Well, it can infect you with alien DNA that forms a worm that crawls out of your eye. It can also take the shape of an alien snake. A hissing cobra like thing that is so irresistibly cute the biologist just has to pet it. The black goo then goes on to orally penetrate the geologist and turn him into a zombie. And that's only the beginning.
There's a captain, who's only job is to fly the ship, but in order to crash the Prometheus into the alien ship he needs two sidekicks to commit suicide along with him, because he can't "fly worth a damn".
The whole thing comes to its merciful end when the alien ship crashes down, nearly hitting Ellie. Except the "nearly hitting" part is turned into a minute-long chase scene.
This abomination should never have been made. The execrable script should be turned into black goo and force-fed to its author. What a disgrace. This is George Lucas all over again.