How to spoil the Greek myth

Rating: 2/10 (24 September 2012)

Really. I have no idea why I spent so much money to watch this THING. It might be possible that I am missing the whole meaning of the film, as I don't know the alien films and had to watch this one dubbed in Italian (alas, the translation matters).
First of all, how does this unknown old billionaire (who by the way looks like a plastic monkey) manage to recruit "scientist" for the most important mission for humankind without even telling them what they're in for? I mean, they should be allowed to know whether they are being sent to Mars to monitor the weather or to a mysterious artificial planet to be consumed by a vicious black substance which spoils everything it touches. And I really don't understand why the one who puts the money should hide on his own ship.
Secondly, all is good and fine in Hollywood, but they could have bothered to make those scientists a bit more scientific. Touching everything they see (with weird hard gloves while they are outside, with their bare hands on the ship) and spoiling the alien environment does not seem like the best way to go. Taking off the helmets while on a creepy alien planet looks like the best plan for Scott though.
Apparently the main idea is that those muscular white "men" created a substance which has killed all of them but a few. This substance is kept in vases and there are huge rooms stuffed with them. First question: why are the first discovered vases underneath a giant human face which resembles the aliens more than the humans from the Earth? Second question: all the corpses the "scientists" find are crammed by the doors that lead to the chambers containing the vases and it looks like they really wanted to get in there. If the vases contain the substance that killed them all, why the hell are they trying to reach for it? Third question: if someone managed to freeze some aliens, why did no one bother starting the ship?
One last question, which is really bothering me now: what is the "weapon" the aliens wanted to use against the Earth, the black fluid thing, or the creepy octopus-looking creatures which come out from the wases? Are they the same thing?
This film is really not worth watching. It's just a mixture of elements picked from better films, and it doesn't make sense.