Review of Alien: Covenant (2017) by Austin N — 06 Aug 2018

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 3.5/5 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 likeable. 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. 2/5.