What a waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2012)

So honestly I was so anticipating this movie that I had broken the cardinal rule and looked at ratings and even skimmed the first couple pages of reviews on here and the interesting thing is most times the figures and the reviews coincide. However this time that certainly wasn't the case and I can tell you honestly that did not alter my review or even skew it in any way. I have no idea how this movie got such a high score but it isn't true by any means
This movie was overall boring and very predictable... I went there opening day along with a work morale event. Now if I'd paid for my ticket I would have been even more disappointment. As it was I was overall very unsatisfied and expected much more from Ridley Scott. Hell even Legend which was much more of a bomb than this had so much more to offer. There was absolutely no suspense at all but more importantly as a Sci-Fi (and I'm a total Sci-Fi guy) from the start I was never reeled in at all, not once as it was just so flat. I felt like I was in a seat at a theater bored out of my skull and at one point I looked down at my phone to discover I was an hour into the movie and debated about walking out as it was that boring. However I stuck it out because I had nothing better to do than go back to work (tough choice huh). So I stuck it out and the second half wasn't any more suspenseful or action packed than the first half and I really felt let down on this flick as I was so looking forward to it. Talk about missing the mark.. Great job Ridley, you flubbed t his one up big time...
The suspense or tension was obsolete. The acting was nothing memorable other than the captain of the ship whom I don't even know who he was. the two main big stars (Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender) were flatter than flat although Michael was decent I suppose for his android role he was given, but seriously they could have given away Charlize's role to some other lesser paid actor as her role was so wooden and stone cold that there was really no dimension or acting ability there.
So other reviews had mentioned the spectacular effects and IMHO I didn't think they were at all that notable at all, which was the films other saving grace. nothing from the ship, the planet, the atmosphere, the tunnels, nothing at all left me going "ahhhh..." So in the end this movie IMHO fell flat on it's face. The co-workers that I went with gave it a little more than I but not much. This is by no means a gem and should a sequel be done it should not be directed by Ridley who as far as I'm concerned was a well respected director who apparently doesn't have the juice anymore. And such a disappointment being he directed the first Alien movie...