Scare jumps and dystopic atmosphere

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2017)

Original Alien was a beautiful, lingering slow pace horror film among working crew with an unusual female hero and survivor. The theme of violent alien births was unique and terrifying. The monster was the best alien monster ever. We have all these elements here in Covenant film. The film actually works quite well because sometimes it is nice to eat pop corn and get regular jump scares. It is oddly satisfying to see the familiar elements of a teenage horror movie plot: no, no, don't go there alone! The best familiar elements of Alien work well: so clever and diverse xenophorm and tons of blood. The new aspect in this film is its dystopic atmosphere which is very dark and deep. However, because I had already decided that this is a pop corn movie with jump scares, the sudden depth and darkness seemed like there were two movies that were combined into one unsatisfying mixture. My pop corns were not well suited for the last part of the movie. I loved the acting of the all remaining characters, you know who when you get there. I would have hoped that the recycling of Alien theme would have been more like a classic horror film and less like a pseudointellectual and pseudophilosophical science fiction with unsatisfying feeling.