spaceman88

i like that there is a diggle and a nocenti character

One question though:
The opening scene showed an 'engineer' willingly drinking the bio-weapon and then dying. I guess he was some kind of 'suicide bomber' who was willing to die to infect that planet through its water? Or was he creating life on that planet using his dna interacting with the bio-engineered weapon?

I assumed he was Prometheus by letting the virus out on the planet and killing the Engineers before they could take off and kill earth.

They asked so many questions in this movie and as much of a rush as the movie was (I was jacked coming right out of the theater), it fell apart when I was talking with my friends about the tons of gaping plot holes that existed on all levels. Bigger questions would be like 'Why did the Engineers decide to kill Earth', down to smaller ones like 'Why was Janek so coy about his reasons for going' and 'How did a drugged woman who had just had an alien ripped from her stomach wander off to stumble upon Weyland who had been hiding on the ship? And why was he even there?' Weyland being on the ship answered no questions, served no purpose and muddled an already vague plot even more.

That being said, I saw the film in regular 2D, but was blown away by the visuals and the scope. I had to cover my eyes in horror a few times, which I count as a good thing for a movie, and the creatures were so new and different that real fear came from what the hell were they going to think up next. It did ask a lot of great questions about our existence and, while the plot wandered to a fairly inconclusive and unsatisfying end, it brought up a lot of philosophical questions that most sci-fi tends to bring up. It wasn't perfect, but was the best Ridley Scott movie in a while to say the least and satisfied the Alien fanboy in me a great deal.

7/10

P.S. How great would a happy go lucky musical sequel of Elisabeth and David's head just roaming around the galaxy be?