Alien: An anthology of bad decisions

Rating: 4/10 (14 May 2017)

Alien: Covenant makes full use of all the horror genre tropes of characters making and endless series of bad decisions so that the 'horror' (jump scares and gore) can take place. It doesn't even try to give a nod to believable characters or legitimate science / sci-fi. The 'twist' is only possible because of an edit/cut that is incongruous with the rest of the film. Katherine Waterston and Billy Crudup give pretty good performances given the wastepaper script and plot.
Not great but is anyone expecting anything else from this series anymore?