Let this film series die already...

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2020)

Alien and Aliens, two of the greatest films ever made, hands down. The fact that these two movies from the 70s/80s still stand the test of time with not only the acting and storytelling, but the visuals, really tells you something.
I honestly didn't know this film existed until I was perusing for movies to watch during the quarantine and was like, they made another Alien film? I thought, ok, well it can't be any worse than Prometheus, so I'll bite.
Ridley Scott, who directed the first of the franchise, directed the mess that was Prometheus and now Covenant. I can't believe with the huge budget allotted that instead of going back to the tried and true puppets that were used for the original string of films, we have these god awful CGI effects for not only the aliens, but the blood spatter. Sorry, but that's not scary, not at all. This is what you get with a 100 million budget?? FML!
Let's be honest though, this series has produced flop after flop after the second movie. Alien 3 was only ok (maybe even less than ok) and Resurrection was abysmal.
Why in these prequels do we have the absolute dumbest scientists known to mankind...are these guys supposed to be the tops in their field for these space missions? And everyone in both movies either are hooking up or married, but why? Alien and Aliens made great movies without the use of T&A and couple drama. Aliens did it great with the subtle sexual tension between Hicks and Ripley, it was about the connection and wasn't in your face or gratuitous. Prometheus was really bad about this, but we get it in Covenant as well with the shower scene at the end between two characters that nobody cares about. Oh the alien poky tail in the vag, cause I didn't see that one coming. Come on man, sex scene killings are in slasher flicks, is this what we get Ridley, really? Please! Jason did it better, Freddy did it better, Evil Dead did it better. I was waiting for someone in Covenant to yell, "hello is anyone there?", after hearing a creepy noise cause I felt like I might as well be watching Jason X. You know, the one where Jason is in space. That's how dumb these characters are.
After all the stupid moves before and after landing on a strange planet, the one thing you are not going to do is question the field of charred remains of human like entities you are following unknown android man through to get to his dark and scary castle like domain? An android that you don't know that just happens to be the only survivor for 10 years on an aggressive alien planet. An android that you will blindly follow into a back room after seeing him connect with an aggressive alien and finding the head of one of your comrades floating in water. Then you are going to stick your head into an alien pod cause said android asks you to check it out. Oh, and then at the end, one of the last survivors doesn't think to ask her android friend until he locks her in her cryopod a personal question, suddenly realizing what the audience already figured out...it's not him, it's evil android. No kidding?
They all deserved to die, the end.