What a waste

Rating: 4/10 (26 October 2012)

I was really looking forward to this movie, and became increasingly irritated and disappointed as it progressed.
The actors play Idiots in Space, except for Noomi Rapace (one of my very favorite actors), who plays some kind of Super Human Scientist with incredible resolve, unprecedented recuperative powers, superhuman strength and agility, and the Luck of a 10-time Lottery Winner. And with very few actual science skills or reasoning ability.
Large, spacious, ridiculously furnitured rooms in space? Check. Obscure rock n' roll paraphernalia and a garish Christmas tree shipped a trillion miles from home? Yup. Billiard tables and whiskey bottles, likewise shipped. Why not? Some great special effects entirely compromised by idiotic sets, bizarre costume choices, and a bunch of nameless retards running here and there shouting inanities until they're killed, as a mindless treadmill script dictates.
The "scientists" and their "methods" for this massive failure are further indication of the lack of even the most basic research that went into this mess. What an unpleasant surprise. I have lost a lot of respect for Ridley Scott. This could have been a great movie.