Not gonna say ancient aliens but......ANCIENT ALIENS!

Rating: 4/10 (21 June 2012)

A group of "scientists" who watched too many History Channel specials take a blind trip to a planet to discover what could possibly be an ancient alien race that created mankind. Problem is, these "scientists" behave straight out of a Scooby Doo episode, they do stupid thing after stupid thing. Then these "superior" beings appear and they behave even dumber, for such a "superior" form of life they behave no different than a pack of wild animals.
All the characters have paper thin motivations (as in none) there are situations that pop out of nowhere because the script said so and at the end we have another average so-called scifi horror flick. Forget about the director, or the connection to his previous superior sci-fi suspense film. This movie has no idea what to do with it's premise aside from being another loud bang CGI extravaganza that nobody is going to remember. An OK movie to kill some hours? Some could say that, there is some nice attention to detail and cool sets, but what's the point if the script is such a terrible mess? Real tension should come from well written characters and situations, not because we need a "climatic" scene where nasty looking creatures attack the hero. The movie is trying to be two things at the same time: a "serious" sci-fi story, and a suspense-horror thriller, yet it fails miserable on both areas, specially the first one. That this movie is taking itself so seriously is what makes it even more annoying.
In short, this is a mindless shock movie pretending to be "high" art. They even rip-off Carpenter's The Thing at one point. What else could i possibly tell you about this mess? It's a glorified b-movie, that will be quickly forgotten in a couple of months.