You'll have to excuse this post. It's half past three in the morning and I am shattered.
After a half hour drive home (and some intense thinking) I've decided to remove my initial reaction and start afresh. My gut feeling upon walking out was disappointment. Now I'm tucked up in bed my feelings are shifting slightly. Flawed or not, you have to tip your hat to 20th Century Fox for giving this a summer release. I've been left with existential thoughts I highly doubt any other 'blockbuster' will come to for years.
The first fifteen mintues are some of the best I've ever seen from Ridley. Absolutely jaw dropping. It kills me that I cannot say the same about the ending.
Honestly though, people on this thread have expressed their feeling far better than I could hope.
A word of warning though, those expecting anything
close to an Alien film (any of them) will be severely let down.
As for the 3D? This film (personally) is the best I have ever seen it used. You'd be doing yourself a massive injustice by seeing this film in 2D.
Goodnight