A terribly inconsistent

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2017)

as a huge Alien fan after seeing Prometheus even I had a very low expectations of its sequel. I really wanted to like it, but it's quite hard. Covenant inherited too many flaws from its predecessor. Once again we have a predictable plot with many plot holes, characters who are tragically shallow (better to say non-existent), who act in a stupid way, there is no character development and bad acting. Action scenes are too quick to watch, many CGIs look too artificial and the strange editing makes the story terribly incoherent. Just a few examples.

At one moment in engineer's temple we see how the alien is killing one crew member after another but the people sitting in the same temple maybe just a few rooms away don't hear that. There is even firing with the gun and still the rest of crew is deaf, just wondering where (now killed) crew member is.

The android from ill fated Prometheus mission who has spent 10 year on the planet miraculously saved our crew, but the members don't start an inquiry, asking him what he knows, why he and Shaw landed on this planet, what happened to the rest of Prometheus crew, who were the builders of the temple, what can they expect from the hostile creatures. Nothing like that. 10 sentences long explanation is OK for them.

In one scene our evil android tries to kill a crew member but then for no particular reason the same android is helping the same crew member to kill the alien he has just brought to the ship and after he succeeds, he put to sleep the remaining crew members just to turn them into his laboratory rats for his sick experiments.

Alien Covenant is not a terrible movie. If you don't expect much, it can be even interesting experience. But don't expect anything close to Alien and Aliens movies. This is Prometheus 2 with all its illogical. It has beautiful visuals and the story is more action oriented so it's actually less painful to watch than Prometheus, but it's still far away from what a die hard Alien fan is expecting from this top production. Prometheus and Covenant came with some intriguing themes but Ridley should have hired the better script writers.