Not a disappointment, just a bad movie

Rating: 2/10 (12 May 2017)

Alien: Covenant stars Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender and Danny McBride. The crew of a colony ship, heading for a planet to colonize, discover a signal from another planet and decide to go to that planet. First things off, this movie looks pretty great. The scenery and the locations look really good. But that's a given since Ridley Scott always makes his films look fantastic. The score is phenomenal but its basically the same score from Alien and Prometheus. The acting by Michael Fassbender was great as always and his character was the most intriguing of them all. And that's sadly the only positives I have with the movie. Everything has a "but" for me. The score was great but its the same as before. The production design and the cinematography was great but there was missing a lot of unique color grading. The story is good but its the same as Alien and Prometheus. The pacing is probably one of my biggest flaws. For me, a movie needs to open with a great scene to really get my interest. This movie opened with a good scene but then it gets really boring really fast. There was nothing to the characters and most of them are disposable except for David's character that appears later in the movie. There was nothing really that caught my interest throughout the movie. It never really starts for me. The CGI on the aliens were really noticeable and it did take me out of the best scenes. Like with the first time you see the alien. Its a great scene, but then its immediately ruined by the CGI. They would have used a practical effect instead. The half of the movie it gets really strange. And I don't mean in the kind of unique and special way. I mean the really out of place stuff throughout the second half. It really doesn't fully explain nothing and the reasoning of why the xenomorphs are in the movie is lazy writing. The ending is awful with a lot of really noticeable clichés and the direction is sadly non-existent. The script is really dumb and the characters are really bland. The only positives I have with the movie is that it is really well made and I like some philosophical questions and some scenes with the aliens are unique. But overall, this is a really bland movie with no characters and I would not recommend it. This is one of the moviest movie of the year. 4.5/10