Review of Alien: Covenant (2017) by Paveld — 19 May 2017

Somewhere in the middle of the movie, one of the hard to tell apart characters says "I don't get it". And he/she is totally right - neither do I. The spore plot that was dropped years back for Alien 3 is back.

Along with a script that seems to have lost its structure, with lots of unnecessary gore, an attempt to explain the Alien's origin (don't we all love to know what gives the Jedi their powers?) and characters that do their best to act against all thinkable logic.

Hey - we've just stumbled upon a planet that's closer than the one we spent 10 years analyzing for colonization. Let's land right away without finding out what it might hold. And sure, let's take almost the entire crew along - just to destroy the entire mission (which includes 2000 people) in case we lose the ground crew.

And let's leave people unable to think straight aboard the mother ship. That's the only way to be sure. And have one of them oppose the idiot (who's of course in charge) constantly, only to corroborate his clearly suicidal command only minutes later.

And the not-really-ripley character joins this idiocy at the very end of the movie. It's like the presence of the Engineer planet (I didn't notice the planet was this one, oops) caused all humans drop half of their brains for a reason.

And I thought Alien 3 was the worst part of the franchise...