A triumph of style over substance

Rating: 5/10 (5 June 2012)

The visuals on this movie are excellent. But like so many films of late, the storyline is vague at best and confusing at worst.
It relies on many leaps of faith (no pun intended) by the watcher and left me feeling like I had been deliberately denied seeing bits of information which would have made the film a more in-depth experience.
There are many issues I have with this film and here is just a selection:
If you are an alien race that is intent on destroying humans, why come here in the first place and create us?
If you are an alien race of people intent on destroying the people you created, why are their cave drawings all over the place depicting you?
How do the cave drawings depict an invitation? And if there is an invitation, what is the purpose of the aliens sending it to us?
What was the point of Charlize Theron in this film?
I understand that David learnt lots of languages, but it did seem a little easy for him to open doors using controls in an alien language.
Why were there so many different types of aliens other than our creators. What the hell was that thing at the end, that was born of "man type" alien and an "octopus type" alien. Is this supposed to signify some kind of evolution?
Well I could sit here all day and gripe about this film, but the biggest problem of all is I REALLY FREAKING HATE IT WHEN FILMS END ON SO OBVIOUS A CLUE TO A SEQUEL. It just makes my blood boil. I went to watch a film, not a TV series for crying out loud.
I gave this film 5 out of 10 and that was me being extremely generous. It was only for the CGI.