A bloody awful movie!!

Rating: 1/10 (4 June 2012)

Seriously I read some of the negative reviews of this movie and thought how can it be that bad? Ridley Scott will be returning to the Alien universe and all will be well! I couldn't have been more wrong!
Let me start by saying that this movies marketing campaign has sucked people in incredibly successfully and lead people to believe that they will be watching a suspense filled, dark and mysterious sci-fi horror which will be reminiscent of the original Alien movie we all know and love. Wrong!
Firstly the movie visually is stunning and Michael Fassbender performs well but honestly folks this is we're the positivity ends in spectacular fashion!!
The story starts out quite well and the shots of the spaceship the planet and Fassbender playing basketball, watching Peter O'Toole in Lawerence of Arabia and doing his hair and I thought well this will be interesting as a movie and have some depth. How wrong I was!!
Once the other character came out of hyper sleep the movie steadily went down hill. The dialogue between the actors mostly seemed unrealistic and forced with most of the characters being a complete waste of casting as they were irrelevant throughout the movie and had zero depth.
What really made me wince were the strange decision some of them made and the movies lack of explanation as to why they did the things they did. An example of this was when Milburn and Fifield get lost in the alien temple after becoming scared when seeing a decapitated Space Jockey and decide to go back to the ship. There is no explanation as to why they become lost and a complete lack of interest from the rest of the crew as to we're they are and their safety. Despite Captain Janek stating to them via radio that Alien life has been detected, he just tells them to go to sleep, very odd!
While still lost they go from being terrified to encountering a large snakelike alien and losing all their fear and start to pet it like a dog. Surprise surprise they both get killed. The whole thing was ridiculous.
These themes continue throughout the movie but to list them in detail would take a long time.
The movie was completely lacking in tension, suspense or scares that made Alien 1979 so gripping and believable. It also opens with a theme about how we as human being have been created and tries to debate the creationist theories against the Darwinist theories but soon unravels into a complete mess and standard slasher in space type movie.
The whole C-Section part of the movies was also pretty poor and was more amusing than scary and the laughable use of Guy Pearce as the old man Peter Weyland was B-Movie standard, I mean why didn't they just use an older actor instead of prosthetics. Terrible.
The dialogue was for the most part pretty dire and this made the characters almost comic book-like when compared to realism of Alien and Ridley Scott's other great movies. This was probably due to Lindlelof's writing but come on surely this had to get passed Scott? What is going on?
I also got the feeling that the movie was rushing along and that story lacked cohesion, jumping around from pillar to post and not giving the audience any time to relate to the characters. This made the film for me feel odd and mostly non-sensical. Scott stated that the movie was a tight cut but the movie was trying to cover too many bases and essentially it then had no identity and felt flat.
There was no explanation as to the motives of the Space Jockey race and their reasons to wanting to destroy Earth leaving the movie open to a sequel but seriously if it is as badly acted and disjointed as this I will not be watching on cinema. No chance!
I could list all the sequences I disliked in this movie but we would be here for some time and quite frankly I could not quite believe that this was made by Ridley Scott considering some of his great movies of the past. Maybe Hollywood these days has to much of a stranglehold on a directors artistic licences these days and will only produce CGI filled garbage that numbs the audiences brains into believing they are watching a quality product. Well in this movie they ain't and I wasn't fooled!!
All I can say is Ridley please give up the ghost and retire!! We can't have you destroying Bladerunner with a sequels like Prometheus.