After finally seeing this, I'm actually disappointed...

Rating: 5/10 (12 October 2012)

One reviewer mentioned it already, but the acting was not up to par. "Two dimensional"? I wouldn't give them that much really, even Fassbender. He did a passable job as an android, but sheesh! Rapace could have done something more original, not a Ripley clone! And I thought all through the movie that the blonde was the supposed "Captain", but no. The pilot really was, for as soon as he says he's going to ram the alien ship, she goes running for an escape capsule! Ohhh, I get it. She indicates she is Weyland's daughter, so Daddy gave her a whole big ship to play with! And the pilot! He spends the whole movie looking like some extra they hired, then suddenly he's a hero? Please!!! And to make it worse, two other flight crew join him, both of them treating dying as just another job. Totally unbelievable really.
In another scene, we have two "scientists" treating a new alien animal as if it were some cute little puppy dog, heh heh...I mean, seriously, these two actually lean closer so the snake looking thingy can attack them more easily...come on, too stupid to be believed...
No, I wasn't impressed with this outing in the "Alien" universe. And here's why: Far too many reused pieces of dialog from all the Alien films. I detested the call "We are LEAVING!" That line belongs to Michael Biehn, and him alone, it was so well delivered! Too many recognizable scenes from other Alien films. I won't describe the entire movie, so you judge for yourself. It actually looked like they cut and pasted the script at times, for crying out loud.
One particular scene has always bugged me too. When the Prometheus rams the Engineers ship, it is a mile or more from Rapace and the Captain...so how is it that the alien ship drops right on top of the two ? A really big glitch for me and continuity...
At least they had some very good CGI visuals throughout, that's the best I can give them...
I paid my 20 bucks for the DVD Mr Scott, so you made some money off me. Now I understand the reasoning behind holding back the release, more chance to con as much as you could out of it.
Someone actually started a comments topic as to people feeling that film makers owe the audience. GEE, what a novel idea!!! Of course they owe us stupid! If we didn't expect quality, we wouldn't buy, would we. This movie was not quality Mr Scott