Wasted Opportunity

Rating: 4/10 (17 August 2017)

Oh boy, here we go. Ridley went and made another Promethe....err um, Alien movie. So how was it? Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly of Alien Covenant...
Good: Michael Fassbender as the androids David and Walter. Great scenery and general special effects. It feels like the crossover from the Prometheus world to the Alien one.
Bad: The plot basically rips off/remakes the original Alien movie (even more so than Prometheus did). The film slows down mid-way (not that it was loaded with action up to that point) to give some exposition on what happened to Elizabeth Shaw and David. Limited number of (and encounters with) the Aliens.
Ugly: The secondary characters all sucked and barely had any screen time to be developed. I didn't care if any of them lived or died. Completely borrows the titles, sounds, and music from the original Alien movie as if to say "Hey, look at me, I'm an Alien movie!"
Not scary, original, exciting, or even memorable - it's ultra-basic fan service.
Personally, I really never needed to know the origin of the eggs or the derelict from the first movie - it added mystery and left you guessing. So much for that.
It's a rental at best, and I really hope they don't make any more if they continue to devolve them into something that's not worth remembering.
Quit while you're ahead, Ridley.