Could and should, have been better.

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2012)

Given the origin of the 'Ideas as developed' in this , and loosely based on ideas in the original 1979 film scripts, (including those various 'shelved ideas'; the ones that were thought-up, but never made into production), it's a wonder that Scott claimed to want to make what was supposed to be part of the "combined,O'Bannon-Giger-Scott-Alien Mythos". The characters in this Film, were acting out of one of the most blatant examples of 'Script-writer says so' doing things that ensured their own demise. If this were anything based on actual events- we could only see that any space exploration, no matter how technologically advanced, still caused severe intellectual damage in anyone foolish (or unfortunate) enough to partake in it. The characters did implausibly stupid things, and seemed to use little/none, of the supposedly high-technology, that they were surrounded by. Also- for whatever reason- some of the tech shown in the film, seemed to contradict other tech shown. For example: A "viewing system" for watching people's Dreams while in Cryo-sleep, and a "flying drone-ball", that makes a 3-d model of the interior of the 'Temple', yet the ship's crew relies on large windows, to make a random (Lucky?) landing on planet-surfaces. And just how did David, (the android) know how to work all those controls in the ship? Or speak the language of the 'Engineers', presumably they had never been heard to speak, by any ancestor of any animal, let alone a human. Or why did David (the android) 'know what the Mission was", that the large humanoid 'Engineers' actually were going on. This Film, while visually stunning; (using some of HR Gieger's designs & ideas, from the original script proposals of the 1979 Alien Film) had some huge Logic holes, you could drive one of those 'Military style transporters' through I enjoyed it- it was almost an exercise in 'Redoing the first Alien", just bigger budget, louder, faster... It was sort of a problem relationship: a decent visual, but essentially a 'Grade B' picture, like that exciting 'significant other' who drinks to much and embarrasses you and damages some of your stuff.