Terrifying and Spectacular

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2017)

Alien Convenant is a movie that does great with themes and concepts that Ridley Scott has tried to introduce into the franchise starting with Prometheus. There's a concept of life, death and recreation intertwined with the morality of man.
It actually amazes me with the reviews that have one star because they didn't like the acting. Its as though we had Oscar winning performances with the first four... It shows the lack of depth our new science fiction fans have. With that type of mindset one could say Blade Runner and Total Recall were stupid because the acting was junk... it was junk... however, the concepts of the film were spectacular.
This film... spectacular. The opening scene really brings the viewer into the film really quickly. A key character dies and quickly introduces this concept of despair and hope. Instead of viewing and judging the characters as stupid one should really view this idea of despair and hope and the flaws of the human condition. How quickly we as humans get demoralized when we see death or despair and the irrational actions we take as result. As result, our colony sees a planet due to a transmission character of a Shaw singing. Hope. However, when the ship sends an expedition to explore the planet they meet despair in the form of David. David is an interesting character because he represents the ultimate despair of the human condition. This is revealed when Walter, another robot designed in his image is shown to have less "human" characteristics then David. Walter explains how David's old prototypes scared the humans. We also see snips of David's past in which he see's how flawed humans are. At the same time, after you take a few moments to view Mr. Weyland, and Shaw, and even Daniels' concepts of what they want in life, you will see that David's motivations are actually very human... though disturbing. David wants to live forever... he wants to create life... and even wants a home...
One can take some time to view the stupidity of the characters throughout the film or one can actually see how connected these characters actually are. They pretty much are a family if you think about how they all have their couples with them. This is their family. It can definitely explain the irrationality that happens throughout the film. The captain goes to a planet and breaks protocol because many people's pods blew up. How many people in real life make irrational decisions because someone died? The pilot decides to go to the planet as a rescue after he finds out his wife just died.
At the same time we have a warped personification of a human being in David. In a sense he is irony of the human condition. As such the representation of the crew's death almost feels like humanity killing itself. This motif is also illustrated when David flashes back to killing the original inhabitants of the planet. The death they suffered... belonged to them. And you will understand what I mean by that when you see what actually killed them. The concept of how mortal beings are self destructive even though they can achieve great things.
I think another thing that I actually think people hated in the film is this idea that something can defeat the human intellect. The crew was manipulated throughout the entire movie and really the only reason why we can tell is because we know David from Prometheus and we know this is a horror movie. I think a lot of viewers are afraid that our intellectual concepts can actually be our undoing. And David really represents that. David is our creation in a sense. His knowledge of science far surpasses our own and yet it is so twisted.