oh dear

Rating: 1/10 (17 October 2012)

A crew of idiots who would not be allowed to cross the road unaccompanied in real life are somehow presented as the plausible elite chosen to fly on humankind's most important mission ever. The mission itself has been launched based on dodgy cave paintings that it takes a great leap of faith to believe point to the origin of our species. Our specified idiots seem to represent devolved rather than evolved humans, as they now smoke in their space suits, bait clearly dangerous alien lifeforms, and hide symptoms of illness from their colleagues in this hostile, uncharted territory. The old man financing this fiasco isn't old, just badly made-up. Relations of kinship and sexual/romantic attraction make no sense. The ending is ho-hum.
Hitchcock said an epoch ago that three thing make a good film: Script script script. Ridley Scott knew that once, but seems to have forgotten. A terrible, horrible film.