Woah....

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2012)

SPOIELERS. REALLY. I MEAN IT!
First off this is my first review ever. About anything.
Most things got stated previously but some details I wanted to add my personal thoughts about.
This movie is NOT "hard" Sci-Fi, hard Sci-Fi meaning intelligent well researched, believable and with our today understanding of the universe thinkable/possible technology/events/etc.
I'll have to add that I didn't even know that "Prometheus" plays even in same universe as "Alien", however I quickly recognised the architecture of the human spaceship. But just for the record I didn't got into the movie thinking about "Prometheus" as some sort of prequel to "Alien".
The beginning was good, at first I thought he was poisoned, I saw it that he brought live to earth.
Later on they talked how totally independent cultures created the same motive... the listing of these cultures got me to raise an eyebrow though, cause the Mesopotamian and Sumerian were essentially the same and not so far away from the Egyptian.
But....well... it is only a movie.
Many stated about how they could depict the same motive and that the engineers must have visited earth more often. However I think that it is an epi-genetic remnant of him (the engineer from the beginning), i.e. an memory inherited through the genetic code, a mechanism known today.
This also could explain why they "invited" us to an "bio/nanotech weapons lab" either he somehow consciously wrote it into his code or it got there by accident.
What I found really odd is that the whole team meets on destination for the first time.... the most important and expensive exploration mission and they didn't even train for it? At least an multi-trillion ear would train them for some 0815 planetary exploration...
Also "But it is what I choose to believe" The first time I laughed, then I cried... I mean come on. If I would go to anyone to get funding for some high-risk extreme-cost mission and the only "fact" I could come up with is "But...but but that is what I choose to believe" I could have tears in my eyes to fill oceans with but nobody would give me a funding.... not even the pope or Scientology.
Disregards of safety/protocols etc. etc. They just rush down, say "We've to hurry we only got some hours of daylight left" I don't know what the rotation period of that planet is, but let's assume that it has normally more time till dusk. Either the night is very long or they could wait and prepare for the mission. Some wrote that privately organised explorations have lesser regulations, but 1. This is an high risk and 2. Extreme cost operation... something you don't want to screw up, especially if the boss is hiding in the cargo hold.... for whatever reason.
One scientist then screws around why another one would want to bring a weapon for the exploration of an alien planet "WTF" and he just goes "Okay.... well... then I'll leave it here".
They just get their helmets off cause "We've got oxygen" yeah okay and all the other nasty stuff that could swirl around there? Scanners can only detect what is known to them, what they got programmed to detect.
Literally thousands of other more or less little things that nearly got my eyebrows to fly away...
The black goo: I still think that it is some sort of nanotechnology evolution accelerator, in regard that it did something different to the engineer in the beginning: It could get programmed to do vastly different stuff, from forming everything into pottery to create "better" lifeforms.
The characters are plainly stupid. They behave like chipmunks on an acid trip with too much amphetamine in their food. More often than not completely random stupid stuff, which even contradicts their profession. Normally an biologist going out to explore another planet would get an cardiac arrest from finding an alien (even an dead one) and not run off screaming in panic. Same goes for the geologist. Why did they even sign up to go to another planet if they don't to be there??
The android, which got played really good, just runs around knowing exactly what buttons to push, which he does frequently and nobody cares about ... just remarking sometimes "Whatcha doing David?" "Pushing buttons".
CARBONDATING AN ALIEN on an alien planet dammit. I nearly puked all over my seat from that. I REALLY had to constrain myself not to scream out how stupid that is...
They got an exact match of our genome and theirs... yet we developed on this planet which should have changed our genetic makeup, engineered or not. Plus they look different then us and have green blood (head explosion scene).
And the list goes on and on and on over the next ~ hour.
I seriously can't understand people giving this more than maybe five points. Yes some say that this movie is just too deep for many to understand but I doubt that these people understand how stupid and shallow this movie is.