Sack the writer!!

Rating: 2/10 (21 July 2012)

I hadn't heard much about this movie when I saw it at the cinema, and only realised towards the end that it was the prequel to Alien so my expectations weren't artificially raised.
In my humble opinion there are four key areas where the writing of this film fails:
Believability: I expected the usual blockbuster continuity errors and lack of logic however the amount in this film was so significant it became irritating, and I'm normally a lot more patient with bad films at the cinema. I'm not going to go into each one but believe me there were many. Also there seemed to be very little 'science' involved in this 'science' fiction flick.
Character empathy: There was absolutely none, even less than Alien. So when characters were killed, you didn't really care either way.
Story pace: Very erratic, seemed almost unplanned.
Film Empathy: (**Spoiler Alert**)With this sort of film I feel the audience should be given what they want as the story unfolds. I'm all for twist or two in the story, but telling us at the beginning of a film you are going to explain how we are all created and then move the story on to a pathetic slimy unseen enemy which has nothing to do with the former seems a real let down.
In short this is not a film for anyone with any intelligence. You'll just get angry with it.
Apparently Jon Spaihts was originally asked to write two Alien prequels by Ridley Scott, lets hope Ridley chooses someone else instead!