austinfromdahood Ridley Scott has a history of making oh-so great movies, and also making pretty terrible films. He directed Blade Runner, Alien and Gladiator, films that are so masterful and great. And he also made films like Robin Hood, Exodus Gods and Kings, and the movie I'm reviewing right now, Alien: Covenant. Let me start off by saying this film is almost awful. There are about a few redeeming factors in this film, but those things barely help the film, and I'll save those factors for the end. I want to start off this review with probably the biggest issue of this film, and that is the whole freaking script. If this script wasn't so bad and if Ridley Scott actually tried, I'd probably give this movie a 7/10 at most. But this script has too many problems. It copies off other Alien films, there are unnecessary things, and also missing things. If I elaborated on the unnecessary and missing things, I'd have to go into spoilers, and I don't want to do that in this review. The script also makes decisions and twists that didn't work for me at all. The ending and the events leading up to it for the most part didn't sell it for me and I simply pretty much hated the whole script. There are also decisions in this film that I didn't fully agree with and there are also A LOT of times where I wanted to scream at the characters because they do really dumb and out of context things. Michael Fassbender plays 2 different robots in this film, and the movie decides to spend a lot of time on these robots "bonding" and I thought it was a complete waste of time. It drastically slows down the movie and makes it boring. Many die hard Alien fans say this film is a disgrace, and I can safely say this film is a disgrace to the franchise as well even though I'm not a big fan of it. The few redeeming factors of this film is Michael Fassbender and Danny Mcbride's acting. They kinda saved this film from being completely awful, and their characters were somewhat likable. The rest of the cast were okay in terms of acting, but their actions and choices ruin it for me. The visuals and some of the intense scenes were very well done and those are all of the good parts of this films haha. Guys, please don't waste your time, stay away from this movie. 4/10

csteele12 This is a movie about a crew, and presumably a bunch of carefully selected colonists, who have been exiled from earth for the express purpose of eliminating their stupidity from the gene pool. Oh my god are they stupid.

saralance-99844 This movie doesn't deserve all the 1 and 2 star ratings. It was a real challenge to follow up Prometheus, with its grandiose themes and all its loose ends. I wasn't a huge fan of Prometheus, but it had some good moments. I keep hoping that eventually it will all make sense. Covenant got us a little further towards that end, but there are still some huge holes (especially with regard to the motivations of the Engineers), which I would like to see filled.Covenant wasn't a betrayal to Aliens fans for focusing on AI instead of aliens, either. AI was an important aspect of the stories from the very beginning. David and Walter were excellent characters, and Fassbender did an amazing job in both roles. In Covenant, Scott dove deep into David's character, and it was entirely believable, which made the story so scary and compelling. You create a competitive ego and artificial intelligence that knows it is vastly superior to humans, and then treat it like a tool, and see what you get. I will be annoyed if the last set of scenes is not clarified in a future movie(s), though. David seemed genuinely invested in the outcome of the fight between Daniels and one of his creatures. He seemed to actually want Daniels to win (and was even complicit in it, while playing along as Walter). Why? Why did he waste time playing that game? It seems that he could have easily killed them at several points. I thought perhaps this indicated he had something special in store for her. But why should she be special to him, when he had a whole ship of 2000 colonists to experiment on? The only thing I can figure is that this was actually intended to further acknowledge David's character, as an emotional being and not just a simple machine. To highlight his contempt for and his JOY of tormenting humans, as opposed to simply using humans as a means to an end. To emphasize that his whole sense of purpose is tied to the destruction/debasement of others (as a means of validating his superiority). Maybe he just wanted to see himself through her eyes, after what she had witnessed. Frightening.

StrictlyConfidential Shame! Shame! Shame! on 80-year-old director, Ridley Scott for foisting this $97 million SyFy turd on us (his audience).You know, this film has completely convinced me that Scott is nothing but a senile, old boob.I had thought that Scott had scraped the absolute bottom of the barrel with Prometheus - But, no - Alien: Covenant actually manages to sink even lower into the manure than that.The only surprises that this prized piece of junk had to offer to the viewer was to prove, over and over again, how really-really bad it was.I can only hope that this utter garbage is the very last of the Alien sequels - But, I'm certain that there's still some more poop coming our way in the next few years.And, finally - Speaking about actor (ha!), Michael Fassbender - Next to the likes of that airhead, Tom Cruise - I think he's the most despicable, no-talent, little creep of all.