Disappointing and over-hyped

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2012)

The whole premise sounded exciting but it really is all about eye-candy and a few gross out scares. The story about where we came from and how it ties into the Alien franchise is one big overblown mess. From the discovery of ancient wall paintings to going to a planet that is similar in appearance and location as to the one in Alien. A group of space explorers including the founder of the Weyland group travel to a planet far out into space to find the meaning of our origins only to discover in horror that the beings they find are not benevolent and also carrying a cargo of bio-weapons gone crazy. The references to Alien are there especially the ending which serves as somewhat of a prequel to the original Alien. However the planet is not the same one that Ripley and her crew travel to in the first Alien movie hinting that these engineers had ships crash on other moons orbiting the same planet as the LV designations indicate.
The biggest problem is so many plot elements are not explained or explored enough - we find out that the engineers DNA is a match for ours and that they may have created us but why are they carrying these Alien type creatures , why is one of them still hibernating ,what caused them to crash , and are they coming back to destroy the human race or ? At the end of the movie the lone survivor issues a warning to others to stay away and that she is going off on another engineers ship to find out where they came from and then the Alien chestburster finale. We all know that Ripleys crew received a beacon from a planet that turned out to be a warning to stay away however it was not the planet in this movie so who left that warning beacon and it's quite obvious in the first movie that an engineer died from a chestburster so someone must have found that ship before Ripleys crew and left a warning - it wasn't the engineers as she was able to decipher it and also how does the android David know about the black containers on the engineers ship and seems to know about the life they contain? So many unanswered questions and so many jumpy scenes . I was disappointed 5/10