The mother of all disappointments

Rating: 2/10 (3 June 2012)

Here there will be spoilers.
********************************************************************* First of all, I rank the original Alien as one of the 10 best movies ever made. Needless to say, my expectations were sky-high. Especially considering the fact that Ridley Scott was behind the wheel.
So what on earth happened here? The script is utterly awful. The dialog is laughable (at best!) and the character build-up nonexistent. The characters behave like total dimwits throughout the movie, sparking responses from the movie-going audience that I do not think the director intended. The snake-xeno scene has been dissected before by reviewers here but let me pose the question again: should a biologist really attempt to cuddle with a rather malicious looking new life form not once, not twice but three times?!! This is only one of many,many,many frustrating behaviors from the cast. "I got two crew members lost in a cave during a rather bad storm. Should I monitor their well-being or go for a quicky? Nah, I opt for the latter!". The realism from Alien is thrown out the window on behalf of irritating one-liners and totally unrealistic behavior from the cast. I feel cheated. And no, I did not expect Prometheus to be just another xenomporph-film. But I did expect a film that took its legacy seriously. This did not. What was the point of this film, really?