A beautiful giger-esque movie, but is it too ambitious?

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2017)

Do you remember Alien? The movie shrouded in so much mystery that left everyone asking for questions? a creation so memorable that it has become iconic for ages to come? A world so bleak and dark that made you feel isolated and alone?
Alien Covenant is without a doubt beautiful. The scenery was gloomy, foreboding yet so captivating. In my head i could only think of how many times they had taken the nightmarish illustrations of H.R. Giger and brought it to life once more.
But my praise for this movie ends with the visuals alone.
There is a mix of shock horror and suspense here, however the narrative tends to slow the movie down.
Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed the philosophical narrative about creation or existence, it is a theme that has been seen in Prometheus, but i think that they explained and narrowed it down better in this movie.
By now you're probably asking me, so how was the acting, how was the cast or execution, what about the xenomorph!?
See here is the issue, the two biggest strength that carried the whole movie were atmosphere and its narrative.
As a whole, the acting is fine, the cast was doable, only a few leads held this movie together.
Now for the Xenomorph (Protomorph)
If you only came to see Alien covenant for the Xenomorph, i have some bad news for you.
If you're invested in the prequels for their narrative and visuals then lets await the last piece of the puzzle...