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Rating: 6/10 (9 August 2017)

When I heard a new alien movie was being made i was happy to say the least. Then they released the trailer which made me lose any interest to go see the movie in theaters, it was one of the worst trailers i ever laid eyes on. Now that i've been able to watch the movie outside of theaters I must say, the movie was not as bad as I anticipated.
I liked the main characters of Walter, Daniels, Oram and Tennesee. The rest of the characters, with the exception of David, could've just as easily been nameless bags of flesh. Demian Bichir was grossly underused here.
Then there is the story of this movie, which was without a doubt the weakest part of the movie. The first part of the story takes place on the Covenant, a ship headed for a planet that is to be colonized. Needles to say something goes awry and the ships crew is rudely awakened from hypersleep. The crew takes it's first casualty and they stumble upon the alien planet.
The crew decides to land on the planet to explore and at first all seems to be going well. Soon 2 of the crewmembers become infected by some strange spores and they give birth to our first aliens in this movie. This was actually the strongest part of the film and is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.
After this strong opening the pace slows down a bit and the movie becomes much weaker and everything from here on felt really forced. Our group of humans are attacked by the aliens, they take some losses and are eventually saved by David, the android from prometheus. The next 45 minutes of this movie is purely exposition and makes both Aliens Covenant and Prometheus worse films.
He takes them to a huge dead city within walking distance, which somehow went unnoticed when they flew over the planet. We find out David killed the entire planet and is now experimenting with the aliens. We see he has turned evil when he introduces the captain of the crew to the loving embrace of a facehugger. The remaining crewmembers find out David's gone haywire and attempt to escape. David and Walter have a showdown, it is left ambiguous as to who won the fight, but unless you're 10 years old and you've never seen a single movie in your life, you will probably know. This sets up the ''plot twist'' of the movie, which was completely unnecessary and made this movie worse. The crew manages to escape, but not before ''Walter'' joins them after his showdown with David. They return to the Covenant, which remained in orbit.
This is where the movie starts to improve again. One of the crewmembers got infected, and now trouble is brewing on the ship. The rest of the meatbag characters are killed off in a minute or 2 and we are left with Daniels, Tennessee and ''Walter''. They manage to kill the alien in a very thrilling chase scene. They are put back into hypersleep by ''Walter'' but not before we find out our android ally is actually David, the evil android. Now David is in complete control of the ship and the aliens he smuggled aboard. This sets up the inevitable sequel in which David brings the party to earth or where ever the sequel takes place.
In short. Watch the first 45 minutes and the last 30 minutes, skip the middle and you'll have a good time watching this. I hope that they completely cut out any and all creator bullshit in a possible sequel, it is without a doubt the weakest part of the movie. They should either make an alien movie or a ''creator'' movie like prometheus. Now these 2 concepts are forced together and both are worse off for it.