A truly awful film - moronic!! Avoid like the plague

Rating: 1/10 (5 June 2012)

From the incomprehensible opening (that never gets explained) one descends into a morass of witless clichés with a plot line that leaves one in a state of disbelief that such a rubbish script ever made it to the screen. No amount of special effects could lift this turkey off the runway for me. There is no explanation as to why some aging mega-mogul is driven to fund a one trillion dollar expedition just to ask where we come from. The first time we meet the scientific team the geologist turns out to be a tattooed aggressive money chaser. By any normal standards, a team like this would have done plenty of familiarisation before departing on such a mission so they would all know each other extremely well. The idea of introducing yourself at the end of a two-year sleep was just so hopelessly unbelievable and set the tone for a downward spiral of further stupidities thereafter. The lack of any sort of contamination/contagion protocols was also totally stupid – why do filmmakers seem to believe we are such idiots. Then there is the android re-run (see Alien for all you need to know about this witless and unbelievable addition to the plot). Once again, it is completely incredible to think that humans would allow any android the degree of freedom accorded to the one here. There would always be some sort of 'off' switch. The other fundamental flaw to the android plot line, is what was he doing for the mega-mogul? Then there was the only slight improvement in the weapon systems (over those portrayed in Alien), some rifles and better flamethrowers. Do me a favour and recognise what a horribly untrusting species we are and know that we would not venture into hostile and unknown space without carrying every conceivable weapon we could devise. Equally laughable and sadly pathetic was the automatic operating theatre. Programmed only for males – how crass. In addition, no one is going to believe that Noomi Rapace's character could recover so soon from her operation. The final scenes are the last nail in the coffin of a travesty of a film that was so unintelligent as to defy belief. Firstly, how on earth are the android head and Noomi Rapace going to survive the journey to some unknown planet and just to deliver the alien humanoids own biological weapon back to their home planet. So we are to accept that a scientist goes from wanting to know where we came from to setting out to destroy where we came from? Come on scriptwriters – surely you can be more inventive than that. Secondly, how did that silly little squid grow into such a monster without food? Why does the squid offspring then turn into an alien? Utter biological nonsense.