Poor-metheus

Rating: 1/10 (18 June 2012)

Just an awful attention to details. A team of so-called scientists searching for the origins of mankind. More like a team of idiots. They might as well have sent Larry, Moe, and Curly. Hey Moe check out this giant alien head. poke it with something Curly and see what happens.(explosion) yuk,yuk,yuk!!! My first indication this wasn't going to be good was when the geologist woke after crio-sleep and said he's not there to make friends he's there to make money. The comment and the character didn't seen to fit what was supposed to be a serious science expedition but then again everyone had separate agenda's. Theron's character wanted the old man to die so she could take over the family fortune and the old man wanted to apparently find the secret to longevity, why he was hiding secretly on the ship they don't explain. The scientists wanted to find mankind's ancestors and the robot was supposedly doing the old mans bidding, but later just seemed to be doing whatever he wanted. He was like a kid in a candy store with his hands on everything with no apparent concern for safety or protocol. The "crew of scientists" didn't look or act the part. They didn't test, analyze, quarantine anything, just throw it in a zip lock and bring it on board. The left side of my brain threw in the towel with the "Hey lets take our helmets off I think there's air in here" scene. The robot finds some gooey substance and decides to make a martini with it and test it out on one of the scientists (who was getting sloshed??) just to see what would happen I guess. Then after becoming infected by the substance the so-called scientist impregnates the other scientist with an alien baby thingy which she promptly cuts out of her womb by c-section and escapes from it after just having her abdomen sliced in two. She immediately runs to her crew half naked and covered in blood with her belly stapled shut and nobody even asks what happened to you. Oh ya, by the way I just gave birth to an alien, and just now aborted it but I think it still might be alive, but I'm OK I took a shot for the pain!! Don't get me started on the geologist trying to pet the snake thing or the suicide mission at the end where I truly expected the Asian guy to yell Bonsai before impact.