A good but unremarkable mix of alien and aliens

Rating: 7/10 (13 May 2017)

So after my alien reviews we have now got to alien covenant which I was highly excited for and similar to guardians of the galaxy 2 I enjoyed the film but I wanted it to be better. The premise of the film sees a group of colonists travel to a planet where they are hunted by an alien species. Michael fassbender is back in this film this time as android Walter and he is really good in this film, his American accent is pretty strong in this film but he executes it really well. I also really liked how Davids story was treated in this film and how they progressed his character in this film. Katherine waterson is the female lead in this film and she was pretty good in this film, she doesn't have loads of character development but she gives a pretty decent performance. She has a lot of strength to her character and buy how tough she is when it comes to this situation. Billy crudrup plays the captain of the ship and I actually thought he did a decent job in the film as a guy who has faith that is needed for the situation that this team is in. Danny McBride is in this film in a more serious role then usual and I thought he did a great job in this film I really liked his character and how he truly sold his performance that made him the character with the most emotion to him in in this film. The story in this film does have some really good ties to Prometheus especially and I really loved the expansion of the universe especially with the ending for this film. However, this film isn't really unique at all, even from the description I gave you, you probably have seen plenty of films with a similar premise and this film just really doesn't add anything new or unique in this film which is pretty disappointing. The script for this film has some decent real interactions between our crew that I did like as it felt pretty real and like these people were actually friends. The style of the film has some truly frightening scenes in it, that does make you bite your nails while having some pretty decent action scenes in it as well. But the pacing of this film is a bit off and apart from the ending is pretty predictable as you watch this film go on. Overall this is a pretty decent alien film, but from the trailers I was really hoping for a fantastic film but it doesn't really deliver but it is still a good film probably worth a watch.