Awful movie. Where is the atmosphere?

Rating: 2/10 (22 May 2017)

Let me start by saying Michael Fassbender is a fantastic actor. Alas his valiant effort to save this dire movie by himself failed miserably. The overall issue with Alien Covenant is that is does not capture the fantastic atmosphere of the older Alien movies. Like Promethious, the pace is slow and painful to watch. The nods to the older movie are clumsy and predictable. The crew who face the dreaded beast are a bunch of ill trained buffoons who quite frankly I didn't care about when they got killed off. In fact they are so dislikeable, it's actually enjoyable when they meet their grisly ends.
The audience is shown that some kind of Alien are spread by pollen or dust by some little pods. Really??? That's the best you can come up with??? It just made no sense. Dallas has become Tennessee...really original guys! A colony ship with only one rover? It was just all so cliché and uninteresting. The whole farce left the audience in my local cinema holding their heads in their hands.
Another saving grace apart from Fassbender was that the cinematography was exquisite. Some great angles and beautiful scenery.
Too little and not nearly enough to make it watchable. My tip skip this insult to the Aliens franchise and watch Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2. Now that's a great movie with a fantastic soundtrack.