Good CGI can't detract from awful story

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2012)

The main reason I'm giving a 1 instead of a 6 it's because I have much higher expectations from a flick that tries to bind together a famous series and has the name Ridley Scott connected to it.
The movie has a lot going for it. Michael Fassbender has style and talent and doesn't waiver that here. Noomi Rapace is awesome and Logan Marshall-Greene has a distinct cool about him. I love Charlize Theron and I am sorry she wasn't better used here (same like Fassbender).
Also, the CGI is simply amazing I can't wait for a Blu-Ray HD version.
But, alas, there are a few major letdowns as well.
First, it's the story itself. Somehow the writers couldn't get a grip on connecting it to the Aliens universe in a manageable way and chose to go with cheap mythology.
The android (a must have for an "Alien" movie) just doesn't feel like an android. Androids in "Alien" were always evil-tinted, but also smart, logical, strong and useful in key points in the plot. Fassbender's character is less than useless, his key-characteristic being an obvious jealousy of humanity (after all, Galloway the scientist, managed to find the origin of life and was able to set humanity on a collision course with the fate of the mythological Prometheus without the endless information storage abilities of an android).
The lesson in the story is also cheap: you need faith in addition to knowledge to make it. This feels ironic since the only two characters who truly have a purpose (Idris Elba who sacrifices himself to protect Earth and Green who sacrifices himself to protect the crew) were clearly polarized: Elba had faith and Green had knowledge.
Charlize Theron dies the silliest death I've seen in a blockbuster, senseless and lacking any merit whatsoever: crushed by a falling ship. Seriously??
The Engineer getting tentacle-raped pins the nail in the coffin of this movie, a movie that gets to live on just CGI and the Scott name.