Better Than Prometheus

Rating: 3/10 (11 May 2018)

I wouldn't be honest if I said that I hated this film, it was no where near The Last Jedi terrible level. TLJ was a crime against humanity, Alien: Covenant, didn't go that far, but was close. Prometheus was terrible, except visually, I did like some of the visual effects in Prometheus, but it was sooooo borrring, my God, it was boring. The plot of Alien: Covenant had issues, sure, but at least I was able to follow it and it wasn't boring like Prometheus. Now, if we compare Alien: Covenant to Alien, the movie falls very short. I think the issue is they went all philosophical, which works in some movies, but not in Alien. Alien is meant to terrify and be driven by awesome characters. Granted, Ripley is hard to beat, she was such a bad ass of a character, it would be hard to top her. There was some deep message trying to be conveyed through AC, but I didn't really get it and it felt out of place. Specifically when they showed the old city being consumed by the Aliens, I think that was a metaphor for something, but I don't really care. I'm in the theater to watch a Xenomorph kick some human ass and then get topped by a awesome character. I was instead bored to death by a weird android, gather around kids it's time for a history lesson, yayyyyy, history. Then we learn the android is really a bad guy who's trying to preserve the Alien species. I guess this was supposed to lead into the next movie, which I heard was cancelled, damn. Looking back on the film, I think my biggest issue with the movie was the tone. In the original Alien and Aliens too, the tone was optimistic and heroism. AC was dark, gloomy, boring, and depressing, because the bad android loses, but then wins in the end, pretending to be the good android. I give the film 3 stars because it wasn't the worst movie I've seen but, it definitely didn't reach average status. I'm glad I didn't pay for my ticket, I would have hated to support this.