Boring Tale of Aliens.

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2017)

A movie about aliens, you get crappy CGI of them and not much aliens, followed by the creation of them which is more confusing and boring. Surely the writers and Ridley Scott didn't even know how to explain it.
The movie, boring. Everyone at this point should know this story is about the creation of Aliens. How they came about to wreck havoc in the classic and wonderful Alien Quadrilogy(The four movies). Then comes Prometheus(2012), the first prequel to the Alien story. Which wasn't that bad, average. And then Alien: Covenant(2017) which is the continuous story of how the Aliens came about. But at this point it gets so confusing and so many questions not being answered the movie turns out boring and annoying. Feeling like plot holes and stories aren't sticking. Not saying it does, but you get the feeling like the writers, Ridley Scott himself doesn't even know certain answers and skips over details. That is what this movie delivers.
From that the movie has decent parts. Love the exploring and scenery landscape it showed. Visuals of space was amazing as well. Then you get let down when the aliens show up. The biggest let down in a movie. The aliens looked pathetic. Understandable that it is a different form of aliens unlike the ones we are use to, skinnier looking. Even the action involving the aliens was garbage. Graphics were horrid and the action of them didn't feel like Alien. Along with the fact that somehow this first "aliens" take a lot more damage. So far crappy action with aliens with a boring backstory.
Then we have the characters. I can say right now, most of the other reviews is truth. The most dumbfounded you'll get by their idiotic and what in the world decisions they make is just beyond stupid. So many issues could have been avoided if only they didn't make that one terrible mistake. Even if you panic realizing you are seeing an alien for the first time so you might panic and do something stupid, no no. We are talking about people who make this mission a suicide pact because they don't seem to know anything. An example, in the movie we have the pilot of the small carrier ship who locks two people in the medic bay due to possible contamination. Why was this scene utter horrible? Because the lady had multiple times to change the course to save herself and her friend, but no. So first she locks them in, goes to make a call, comes back(keep in mind she had blood sprayed in her face so she herself should worry about whatever this contamination thing is) and her friend who is begging to be let out she refuses. Then the alien comes out, so still screaming and panicking runs to grab a shotgun while leaving her friend locked in and not letting her out so together they both of them can team up. Nope she runs back and finds her friend getting attacked and possibly dead at this point from the alien, she goes in with the shotgun ready to shoot the alien and her friend in the face until she slips, freaks out and crawls back out closing the door on her leg. So she runs to gets another shotgun misses almost every shot, then blows up the ship with her bad aim. This lady should know the ship has explosives on board but doesn't care. This whole scene was utter trash. Which leaves the rest of the crew stuck on the planet waiting for help now. Then you get stupid decisions with the rest of the movie where no one seems to think. Like taking a ship with 2000 colonists of people very close to the planet to make contact with the crew risking the ship and lives of the 2000. Tough luck, the rest of the crew should have high tailed it out of there.
I can go on about why this movie was terrible, plot holes, the worst crew alive. But the few parts I did enjoy was Michael Fassbender's character or being surprise by how much I like Danny McBride in this movie. Otherwise I wish it would have been so much better. A more simple story would have made it great. I'm still confused on who made the aliens. Anyways with all that said, if you are a fan of the Alien movies you will be disappointed. If you haven't seen the originals and want to watch this, you may or may not enjoy. But regardless you can't escape the stupid decisions the crew does and confusing backstory which makes the movie almost unwatchable. All in all, a one time watch and burn it.