Review of Alien: Covenant (2017) by Jessica K — 23 May 2017

Great movie, very well made and aesthetically pleasing. lots of suspense and creepiness. this movie should be 3.5 but there were things I disliked. (1 viewing).

SPOILERS.

Mainly the most ridiculously obvious twist I can remember. which is that David is pretending to be Walter. They clearly showed that the fight between them could have gone either way and they didn't show the ending. I knew immediately. but it wouldn't have been a big deal. not having a twist is not necessarily a bad thing, most movies don't. but in this case, they seemed to have tried sooooo hard to try to convince us that it wasn't true before they finally revealed it. and then the final reveal was so lame: "are we going to build a cabin together? omg you're david." not only did it not hit but if you wanna be nit-picky it's pretty stupid that she waited to ask that question until 2 seconds after he locked her in. it wasn't like he locked her in and they continued a conversation that stumbled onto that point. she asked him to try to confirm it was david after she became suspicious. maybe it won't bother me as much the second time I watch it but it just brought me down. and also, if they could have pulled it off better, it would have been a great twist. but it may have been hard to pull off. they just shouldn't have played it out as much as they did.