Alien: Covenant

Visually, the Alien franchise has improved tremendously. Contextually (if that's the right word), it misses more than it hits. 'Prometheus' gave us pace with a worthwhile story and some smart plot twists. 'Covenant', on the other hand, gives us a washed-out story with some insanly predictable plot points. It felt extremely fast-paced with action but draggingly slow paced with context or connection. The cgi, casting, and score were mediocre at best. Wasted story, wasted characters, and wasted visuals, but I'm not that bothered as I didn't feel connected anyway.

“you do the fingering. i’ll do the blowing.” exCUSE meeeeee, Michael Assbender???

anyway. such a letdown after the perfection that was Prometheus. 3/10

I mean the ending was kinda obvious but still a good movie.

Overall I think it’s slightly more put together. Story (although pretty predictable) feels more cohesive. Acting is decent. Fassbender carries the movie. No questions were answered but the story continued without hiccups. All this just slightly gives it an edge over Prometheus. Except visually and score wise, of course.

good but not great

You can tell David was made too human-like because he’s so evil and immoral and self absorbed and emo. This was fun! Good scares, very philosophical conversations, nice visual effects and body horror, and a really cool prequel to the xenos we know and love! (I lowkey hate em tho)