Alien and Aliens were a fluke

Rating: 6/10 (3 August 2017)

The first two films featured characters that made mostly rational and consistent decisions based on their own knowledge, experience, logic and goals. Then the third movie mixes things up with a crazy and unnecessary prison planet whose results were about as effectual as the abysmal script writing process (FOX ruined things here pretty much). And then the fourth movie, a dark comedy where basically everyone descends from Idiocracy rather than Blade Runner. Queue Prometheus, where people groan as the science officer does a 180 and plays with the black goo cobra. Then the audience outright laughs as someone effectively fails to turn from running under a giant rolling wheel. At this point of the series, I've accepted the denizens of the Aliens universe are extremely dim, inconsistent, and prone to getting Darwin Awards anytime on camera, so as we arrive at Alien: Covenant, I can empathize with the dark turn of the plot and that the humans are boringly ill-equipped at making any correct choices for logical survival. So instead of a 2/10 (great sets and cool sketches), I award another 4 points for the idiot humans who you're happy to see die over and over. 6/10