More Thrills Than Prometheus, Unfortunately Doesn't Deliver A Memorable Crew or Xenomorph

Rating: 6/10 (14 May 2017)

10 years after the events of Prometheus, Covenant starts with a ship responding to a distress call accidentally stumbled upon, on response the crew find a new world which can be a paradise for their colony mission. On arrival the crew begin to find out that this new paradise is actually more dangerous than it appears. From the start you meet the new crew who are nearly all forgettable and expendable, Katherine Waterston is kind of bland in my opinion as the main human character, i found the only memorable human i can remember is Danny McBride and that may only be because he wore a cowboy hat. Micheal Fassbender has great chemistry with both his characters David and Walter and their connection together feels more human than any of the actual humans in this film.
If you were expecting more knowledge about the Alien mythos and engineers then this film will help answer some questions, but only some, mainly explained by David. There are different versions of the Alien that make an appearance on screen and all add a really intense moment to each of there scenes but due to moronic crew screaming and crying, tripping over and shooting the roof kind of takes the seriousness away from the scenes and makes them more frustrating than enjoyable. The final action scene with the Xenomorph feels rushed and slightly forced, shooting the alien out the airlock and into space might sound like a fun throwback to the original alien but it just falls flat and feels lazy. Also the end scene were the viewers find out Walter is actually David feels horrible forced and predictable, the writers cant really believe that the audience couldn't have guessed that after the ending to the fight scene between Walter and David.
One positive i can say would be the cinematography of the movie. visually this movie is a great watch and the planet looks great. Its also great to actually see the Eggs and the Facehuggers get their intro into the Alien universe.
As this was meant to be Ridley Scotts prequel coming back up to true Alien(1979) form i feel it didn't really reach my expectations, Iv heared Scott has plans for more sequels to connect this to his original Alien but as each one will come out i feel they will lose the general interest from the public and will slowly simmer out.