Not worth paying for and maybe not even worth watching.

Rating: 4/10 (13 October 2012)

As big fan of both Ridley Scott and the Alien franchise this was such a huge disappointment of a film that it's hard to know where to begin.
First, while the film is visually stunning it's bereft of coherent story and plot. Its' link to the first Alien film is badly knitted into the plot and it's hard to believe.
Second, the characters are flat, not believable, unmotivated by any form or reasoning or even the outright greed of the Carter Burke character from Aliens.
Third, the "Engineer" race is really unbelievable as these brutish, unreasoning beasts who've created incredibly advanced bio-weapons. They don't look real, as they are all CGI and it shows.
BTW, in the original Alien movie, the creature in the navigator's chair was a skeleton and NOT some kind of space suit, it's ribs were clearly bone, not some kind of exoskeleton and its' trunk-like nose was also portrayed as a bony protuberance from its' skull and not some kind of wacky helmet with a tube.