Disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (20 June 2020)

This review contains spoilers.
Alien: Covenant is the indirect sequel to Prometheus and is directed by Ridley Scott. It stars Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, and Michael Fassbender. The story focuses on a crew that discovers the Engineer's homeworld as they explore it to check its habitability. On the way, they discover David from the Prometheus crew.
First and foremost, the writing in this movie is significantly worse than its predecessor, Prometheus. Characters will do seemingly nonsensical actions that ultimately cause their deaths. It is as if the characters are written with their death scenes in mind first rather than having a backstory and character motivations. Characters are also aware of how dangerous the planet is, and they still endanger themselves and others by not doing anything sensible. One of the characters believes someone might be infected and upon receiving blood to her face, quarantines the others even when she may be infected as well. This action leads to her death in a rather ridiculous way. Another instance is the captain willingly following David even when he has shown to have ulterior motives into his laboratory. The captain is not surprisingly killed in a way any horror movie viewer can expect.
The movie sets out to destroy any remnants of its prequel, Prometheus through Shaw's off screen death. What was Prometheus' more interesting character with an character and story arc setup is discarded for action and nonsensical deaths. I was looking forward to a continuation of the story and that is not found here.
The directing and acting are decent enough for a full watch. However, the character actions are enough to be angry at this movie's use of actors. This movie could and should have been rewritten as the main story arc has now changed to David creating the xenomorphs.
I do not recommend Alien: Covenant.
Grade: D