Left to ponder?

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2012)

Anticlimactic, overcomplicated, unoriginal and downright silly. A wasted opportunity. This film started off well, but by mid way through you get a sense that it has lost its way. By the end you get that unnerving feeling that it has sold you short. A Much wasted opportunity. No real scares with no cares. Really can't understand how they screwed this up. And before I get a retort, I will say that I am familiar with the Alien films, but did not watch this film for that reason. I viewed this film because I was hoping that this would place the franchise back on the right track, if not, new direction. Unfortunately the new direction is bastardised, meaning, it stank of re-writes and production interference. You could go as far to say that this film has no lead character, no solid story, bad pacing and it feels like its missing the third act. Its one of those cases were, if the film ran for another 5 minutes towards the end with some sense of urgency, it could have really saved the whole package. Unfortunately the film just fizzles out at the end and your left to ponder why you feel a little stupid.