Average-to-poor

Rating: 3/10 (31 May 2012)

This film was one of my two must-see films this year, along with The Dark Knight Rises. But having just seen Prometheus I feel I should deploy an emergency beacon to warn other humanoids about this very average film.
I have a lot of problems with this film, so I'll go through the negatives in a series of bullet points.
Negatives: -The story-line didn't know where the hell it was going AT ALL. This was the gravest sin of all in the film. Within 5 minutes of leaving the screening I came up with a number of scenes and set-pieces that had NO PURPOSE in pushing along the plot. Such as Guy Pearce reawakening and death, the male Doctor 'virus' and burning. The ending with the humanoid alien was pretty annoying too. When you watch a film you want to at least feel like you've got a grasp of the issues. You don't want some alien to just randomly awake and start tearing off heads.
-Character development and acting I didn't feel were that great either. Wassbender I liked (if a tad random), and Raspace but everyone else was pretty uninspired I'd say. Some of the decisions they made too didn't feel legitimate. They'd make leaps all over the place, 'What? Alien tears head off your buddies? They must obviously be going to wipe out mankind (and android said a riddle about this too). Let's go back and ram the ship into the alien ship.
-Ending and conclusion were awful. Guy Pearce gets awoken to get killed. Why is he in it at all then? Head ripping was all very, very random. The 'fly to the aliens home planet' ending was terrible too.
Positives -It did look nice.
I am disappointed by it but it still deserves a watch.