Another failed prequel or why is it so hard to make a decent movie these days?

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2012)

I am giving the movie 2 start and I am feeling generous. If there weren't for some nice visuals it would not deserve even a single star. There is no entertainment in this movie, it's flat, dull and stupid.
I honestly can't believe the movie got to 7,8. Anyone who gave this move more than 7 stars ought to have their brains checked because the have been lobotomized. All who gave it 10 stars are probably outsourced drones from India who did not even see the movie (lucky bastards).
******CONTAINS SPOILERS********* (but believe me it can't spoil the movie, it is that bad)
1. CAST They are just empty shells; a means to an end; just not believable. The character of Dr. Elisabeth Shaw and her boyfriend Dr. Hallaway just don't match. Charlize Theron is too robotic and without agenda. And who in their own right mind would cast a 40-something actor to play a 90-year-old. Shortage of old actors in Hollywood?? Fassbender is OK. In general it is a hotchpotch of characters that are dull and uninteresting. Most are not really introduced.
2. DIRECTING Scott is or should be a legend. He failed us. One would expect a little more from a person who created the Alien universe, directed Blade Runner and Black Hawk Down.
3. MUSIC Music just does not fit, it's not there and when it is it's that title theme which really does not work for me. But the real head-scratcher is why did Ridly allow this to happened when he had collaborated with so many good composers (Vangelis, Hans Zimmer).
4. VISUALS Really good, but that is standard these days. Only the makeup on Guy Pierce stands out... but that was mission impossible anyways.
5. PLOT This is actually where the movie fails big time. I felt that I was actually watching not one but 3 or 4 movies because the plot kept changing directions in some futile effort to reach the inevitable end - to give us explanation as to what happened to the space jockey and it failed there too?!
ANDROID Android somehow knows everything there is to know about Jockeys (he can open their doors, understands their technology...) and yet his actions have no real purpose. Sometimes he is Ashley the robot and sometimes Bishop (Alien vs. Aliens). He brings on board (without anyone noticing) a fairly large urn in his backpack a potentially dangerous artifact, he make an "in vivo" experiment on Dr. Hallaway but than decides to help the only survivor Dr. Shaw to fly away (maybe he wanted to stay alive but then again he is a robot).
DESTRUCTION OF EARTH We are told that the alien (space jockey) ship is a threat to Earth and its launching is the reason for sacrifice of Prometeus, its captain and remaining crew. Why? What stopped the initial launch of the alien ship and what happened to all the other "space jockeys"? It's all just poor attempt at creating tension.
SCIENTISTS A biologist freaks out when he sees a 2000-year old alien corpse but a live alien which kind of reminds of cobra does not scare him a bit. The guy in charge of mapping gets lost and has to remain inside until storm passes. Neither herd the call for evacuation?? Why did everyone else then hurry so much to get back to the ship? they could all have remained inside the alien temple, no? And where do they choose to sleep, in a goo-ridden room with a giant human-like face, of coarse.
SPACE JOCKEYS The purpose of the room with the giant head? What happened to the space jockeys who got in? Did they invent the "aliens" who then killed them (probably yes, but we do not know). We have the scene with them dead on a pile, but that plot line ends in a dead-end. What is the "goo"? What about the "glitch" life form? Or was is there only to direct Fassbender's character to the ship? Weyland has sophisticated projection technology yet jockeys have noisy black and white images?! And their sole purpose is to give us some background information, but we are left with more questions than answers.
ALIEN This film should not be so much about the origin of mankind as much as origin of alien xenomorph. Yet we can still only speculate on how they were created and that probably the experiment went bad or something. The problem is that the path to its appearance is controversial. The substance out of which it appears first has an appearance changing effect on Dr. Hallaway's character. He is killed by but comes to back life a few hours later?! And then is like Hulk?! Dr. Shaw gets impregnated by it and the "baby" is growing like mushroom. It is then removed in a worst operation scene and fastest post-op ever and supposedly killed in a decontamination process. Fassbender is obviously playing the Burke here now but after the alien is removed everything is right as rain?! Thirdly the alien-cobra attacks the scientists and gets into his throat but there the plot ends and lastly the Dr. Shaw baby becomes a giant squid (how, why, and why it did not die in decontamination process is beyond me) and serves as a pre-facehugger and as a result a pre-alien emerges. And as soon as that happens the film ends.
We should ask for refund!