Did Not Live Up to the Hype

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2012)

One of the worst things in life has to be when you get really excited for a movie and then it is nowhere close to what you expected. Well, I had that experience last night as I wasted my time watching this movie.
For one, maybe I am not observant, but I had no idea it was supposed to be a prequel for the Alien movies. I have not seen the Alien movies, but with that said I also think this movie standing by itself is terrible. The one thing I did like about the movie was the technology that Ridley Scott designed there to be way in the future--and the list of things I liked about this movie end here.
So the audience discovers at the beginning of the movie that the whole TRILLION dollar expedition is happening because these doctors "have a feeling" that there is life on this series of planets based on cave drawings. Seriously?
Then once they find the planet, they almost immediately find this pyramid thing that they want to check out.
Next, all of the characters in this movie are completely stupid. Especially David, the robot creature guy who just makes decisions willy- nilly without considering consequences. (And he didn't follow Asimov's rules of robotics). David also inexplicably watched Dr. Walsh's dreams while she was in cryogenic sleep. None of the characters had an ounce of depth.
And the plot holes! The huge huge plot holes. I've read some other people's reviews discussing how Dr. Walsh could walk after her surgery, why the aliens were freakishly hostile and wanted to destroy mankind, why that old man faked his death, and a few other things. The one that bothered me and my boyfriend the most was about the alien DNA. It was match to human DNA patterns. However, the alien creatures look really buff, plastic, and pale. They have strange eyes and strange teeth. If our DNA was an exact match, why don't we look exactly alike?
So to sum, the story line doesn't make sense, the scientist characters are idiots, and there are mammoth plot holes. But, I'll give Ridley Scott that the movie did have great cinematography and I liked some of the technology he developed for the Prometheus team.