Bought the hype, got a huge disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2012)

This movie raises many philosophical issues: faith, humanity and its quest for understanding the origins, the reasons why, etc. It fully addresses none of those, leaves them hanging and ends up as a two-hour trailer for its sequel. And the trailers for this movie were mind-blowing, really worked up the hype and got me excited, but turned out to be the best parts of it, without any scenes being in it (especially the Weyland keynote). It's a crying shame, a tragedy, what this movie turned out to be.
I'm writing this fresh from the cinema and just can't wrap my head around the disappointment. Visually, the movie is striking and beautiful. The acting, the script, the plot holes – everything else sucks on so many levels.
To those reviewers who say the movie made them think, I say the movie does poor justice to the elemental questions of the human condition that it seems to be so eager to raise from the start. The ending leaves a bitter taste and makes you feel like the only reason this movie was made is to kick start a franchise that was over after Cameron's film.
I didn't mean to give this bottom rating, only to commend the visual style of the movie, but I just can't. I feel so disappointed and robbed of my hard earned money, and no, I won't go to see the inevitable sequel. Words fail me to express my disgust and sadness of what became of a sci-fi legend, both the movie and the director.