The Man-Bride of the Space Island of Dr. Moreau

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2017)

Instead of having Danny McBride I wish they had Danny Glover, running around with his service revolver saying directly to the camera, "I'm too old for this sh*t."
I enjoyed this movie. It was better than Etheus-Prom Stars. It felt like it was assembled by a team of janitors sent to mop up the mess Prometheus made.
Fassbender was brilliant. The art department gets an A+. The script was... meh. The characters were paper puppets who only became interesting while dying. At least fans of the Aliens franchise have prequel films to rival Jar-jar's trilogy! So that's good. Hopefully Giger's aliens will get sent to Naboo to space rape the Gungans in an epic Star Wars / Alien crossover. Then fans of both franchises can rejoice.
Covenant came across as 3 or 4 separate movies aptly Frankenstein-ed together. Clunky and sloppy but able to shuffle along at a decent pace for 2 hours.
I realized that Papa Ridley's films need a strong, smart, tight script in order to be great films, otherwise they turn into visually interesting (but boring) non-sense. There's enough good stuff in Covenant to make it worth watching, and I think that might be the saddest thing about this movie, that it was so close to being a great film. So close. Finished in 56th place.
Since there are now 8 films in the franchise, I guess technically they're all in the top ten.
Final verdict 56/100