Going down

Rating: 5/10 (4 September 2017)

I am 54 years old, and I am in loved with the science fiction films genre since the old TV series, and how not, from to see in a cinemascope cinema 2001. Incredible.
Are out of place the crowd of "experts" of the science fiction, for who a good movie of this type, would be a karate fight between martians, and why not to add a few Chinese giving jumps with pulleys? And better, with a boy driving a viper. Wowww.. the Death Star...
This goes for the near-sighted who have not seen the gigantic qualitative jump that Prometheus supposed for Alien.
One of the most ambitious histories in the history of the cinema of the science fiction. Redirect the Alien story to a worrying and well science based history about other world that creates the humanity and paradoxically tries to destroy it. For me Prometheus was a very big film, door to a much more big film.
Prometheus had little small scientific faults, but the extension of the history was so great that to put this history in a so short time, compensates fully the sensation of a very well made reality.
But is now with Covenant where I believe that Scott has been wrong. It is evident that to extend the history showing such an overwhelming civilization, it had been very risky and extremely expensive. So risked and expensive like was Cleopatra, showing the Egyptian and Roman civilization, and how not, without the recognition in his moment that this movie supposed. But now, one of the grandest movies of the history of the cinema.
With Covenant, that civilizations is showed during 1 minute, and only to show how David kills a village of them. It is good like all those of Scott entertaining. But it is a slam to the grand history that could be, returning to the action scenes only made to maintain the adventure. Not the interest.
Sorry Ridley, but the interest about David is far, far way from the interest for the civilization that created the humanity.... someone that we know as God.