And the Universe of Alien is shrinking furthermore...

Rating: 3/10 (15 July 2017)

This movie makes Prometheus look like a philosophical piece of art.
By all its flaws and awkward moments it's difficult for me where to begin. A couple of examples? Here you go: Remember the helmet issue in Prometheus? Guess what, in this movie they even don't bother with helmets anymore. Let's go on a foreign planet and breath in parasitic spores - weeeeeeh! Remember the stupid actions of the crew from Prometheus? In this movie a couple of crew members sacrificing a ship full with 2000 people in cryo-sleep, just because they discover a hazy transmission.
Of course, the Images of Covenant look astonishing and the creatures move thanks to CGI faster than a jaguar. Oh by the way! Remember the slow and creepy pacing from the first two Alien-Movies? Now the chest from the victims of the infamous Facehuggers burst open within a couple minutes. Instead breeding now included!
The list goes on and on, including a incredible cheap, foreseeable pay off at the end.
What the first movie made special, was the unknown heritage and background of the xenomorph and the spacejockey. The whole concept was simple and the premise was based simply on a unlucky coincident. A small crew discovers a crashed, mysterious ship with a deadly cargo, stranded on a foreign planet, lost in the depths of space.
Now we know - thanks to Prometheus and Alien: CoVenant - that the Spacejockey is in fact just a smarter version of Jason Vorhees and the original Alien Lifeform is the result of a sulky Android and his experiments in the basement.
Yes - now, if you watch ALIEN again you witness a bunch of people being butchered by the result of a man-made Android. So in conclusion: the Spacejockeys are now the real "Aliens" and the Alien from Alien is now a simple weapon, manufactured indirectly by men.
Instead of expanding the universe of Alien, Ridley Scott shrunk it.