The downfall of Alien

Rating: 2/10 (25 July 2017)

Well I am a big Alien fan, the original films were fab, I even quite like Prometheus. Alien Covenant though is dire from start to finish. Not to many spoilers, the story starts with the crew on their way to colonise a planet, which they have been planning for years, but get woken up from hyper-sleep and suddenly think they have found a better place to colonise, lol...are you serious? this would take some planning to colonise a planet, and suddenly they phone home and say they have found a closer one :-) As usual their is a transmission from the planet, they don't understand where it has come from so virtually the whole crew go down, armed to the back teeth (aliens may not think they've come in peace). Where they land is 8km from this transmission, don't know why so far, maybe they felt like a hike, they park up on a lake and start walking lol...their is lush vegetation and fresh water..but one of the crew points out...no animals anywhere!! For a bunch of colonist you would think that would be a bad sign that things are not quite what they seem, but they carry on...leaving one girl behind to carry out tests, with a single guard :-)...if there had been a secret army come out of the forests to attack them I'm not sure what good he would do. The film descends into farce with an incompetent crew not even following basic quarantine procedures...and once they've discovered there's nasty Alien creatures down there, the remaining crew seem to insist on going off by themselves into dark lonely areas of the old city, one of them "to freshen up" lol Enough ...watch it, make up your own mind, but Alien was a much better story when we all thought they were just a nasty little creature we had just stumbled across in the galaxy...they are ruining the story (btw, why don't the aliens attack David???)