A reasonably entertaining Alien horror flick

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2017)

It wasn't perfect but neither did it disappoint.
Alien Covenant had features that were quite similar to alien films in the past maybe so that older audiences weren't disappointed, but lacked any new original ideas and it just felt a bit like Déjà vu for vast quantities of the movie. It was sometimes slow-paced (the conversations went on too long and would take 10 minutes while the crew tried to navigate through a storm, 'yawn') and generally lacked a certain flair which at times left the audience somewhat disengaged. Broad parts of the movie was filmed in dimly lit caves and I would have liked to see some different settings from time to time but overall it was reasonably enjoyable and some scenes were quite scary and tense like in other past Alien Movies which was good. The plot was fairly intriguing and worked well in explaining how the creatures came about but the ideas were a bit hashed and didn't fully come together which left the audience not seeing the whole picture.
On a more positive note I think that Ridley Scott is very good at making his movies look good visually and on designing the set and Alien Covenant was no exception as the movie was visually stunning with some really good shots of the planet throughout the movie which added to its overall elegance. Also Michael Fassbinder's double role as good robot and bad robot was amazing and he put in a 'Oscar winning performance' which is worthy of recognition.
To conclude it depends on what you came into this movie for. If it was a new original Alien movie which answered all the questions from Prometheus and had innovative ideas then you may be left a bit disappointed as it was a bit same old same old, the twist was obvious and while it did offer some intriguing insight into how the creatures came about(which was cleverly done and worked well)and you could see where they were coming from it ended with the audience not fully satisfied with maybe wanting, and expecting, another film. Whereas if you wanted a scary, gory and reasonably entertaining Alien film to watch and enjoy with your mates, or to take you down memory lane to reacquaint yourself with Alien then you certainly won't be disappointed.
Overall it was a just a bit 'meh' 6.4 out of 10