Alien: Covenant Reviews

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.

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)

Good but still leaves me with questions. Hopefully Romulus rounds it out.

Guess the first time in theathre I loved it. Just rewatched it on blu-ray. Got all the clues this time. So yeah good movie but not the best imo

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.

This was good, but I still have some unanswered questions. David was giving me the creeps. I didn’t like any of the other characters except for the synthetics. Some things were a bit random. What the hell was James Franco doing there?

everyone in this movie was unrealistically stupid and the cgi sucked. worse than Romulus. WARNING JAMES FRANCO IS IN THIS. do with that what you will.

Watched this when I was younger with my parents
Great movie. 7/10

Alien series are infamous for its stupid character, and thankfully it showed less here. The lore was explained further and actions were much prioritised compared to its forerunner. The second ending always gets me, and this tradition should be glorified of course.

I’m disappointed that this movie didn’t follow up the loose ends left in Prometheus. I’m left with WAY more questions. Also, just like in Prometheus, I couldn’t stand the characters’ dumb decision making. The visuals were great but the ending “twist” was extremely predictable

That was a lot better than I anticipated! Very scary and interesting twists. I really enjoyed this one and the cast was great

Ist halt ein weitere Alien Film. Die originalen Filme waren noch besonderes doch jetzt ist die Story ein wenig ausgelutscht. War schön zu sehen, aber für eine Fortsetzung müsse man sich mal was Neues einfallen lassen.

The most mid Alien movie. At this point the series just feels repetitive.

Kinda off if you put it in context — i mean, It’s 2017, couldn’t you do better? Special effects were lacking and story wise wasn’t much even though it it a direct continuation of Prometheus. Some scenes were clearly overkill. Michael Fassbender is severely off-putting.

Not all the alien films are GREAT like this one but this is overall a really good and consistent franchise in horror. Fassbender is incredible in both roles and i NEED a sequel or tie in to this.

8/10
Really good movie in my opinion. David’s character steals the show in any scene he’s in. It was nice to see more history into the creation of the Aliens. Definitely the goriest of the movies so far but I’ll take better graphics over a dude in an alien costume any day.

“Watch me, I'll do the fingering.”

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