Ridley Scott celebrates himself in this pointless movie

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2012)

This is a terrible self indulgent pointless "origin story". If you haven't seen it, just ask someone who had to mate with what to create the original alien...
Sure there is a lot of great stuff visually and the 3D is excellent. Unfortunately the rest is very poor. Be it the re-cycled robot who is all to human, a space ship that is started by playing the flute or the fact that all of the scientist exclusively make bad decisions.
The actions of all the characters are not very credible and the driving chaos force of the easily insulted robot is just the cheapest plot device. Which is bad, as the overall plot is pretty much the thinnest possible premise / excuse for an origin story. If you will a lame two hour prelude to ridiculously lame origin "punch line".
The whole film feels forced and stiff. Very staged and wooden, there is no flow, no chemistry, no character to connect to. Without Ridley Scotts name on it would probably have much worse reviews. I cannot remember seeing a movie where I cared less about the outcome this year.