@Le Ceticant.
i pretty much agree with your summary, it is a lot like avp in many ways.
also, the black oil/goo is just a rip off of the x files in my opinion, and the brave captain janeks crash into the juggernaught has been done in the last two star trek movies.
this movie is not very original as ridley and lindeloff have claimed...
and i would even go as far as saying avp1 story was more consistent and made more sense, and also even alien resurrections newborn was better than the abysmal squidhugger, and any of the other movies xenos were a milllion times better than the joke at the end of prometheus.
thanks
rich