Insult and Injury

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2017)

I was so excited about this movie the anticipation was palpable, so sure was I that RS would bring the being of my nightmares back to life with modern cgi and a scarier story line that I shouted from the rooftops that it would be of course as brilliant as Aliens. How wrong I was. The screen time that the Xenomorph has is short, far too short and it does not have you gripping the edge of your seat. It is predictable and lame, think more angry dog than the intelligent and heart racing scary Alien you remember from Alien and Aliens. I fully appreciate that this film was maybe designed to go off on a tangent but people who love the franchise "fans" were expecting more from our two mouthed killer. The non entity Neomorph was just that, a speck in the entire film. Not much to offer other than some gory birthing scenes. The whole story fixated on an Android with daddy issues. The realisation that comes to light being an Android in essence created the Alien species we know and love. I didn't like that. That disappointed me beyond belief.
All in all I was gutted, I wanted Alien Covenant to be about the Alien, bringing back the creature that made me hold my breath and hang on to my seat, the scary, all consuming fright it made you feel for the characters it pursued. Not recommended if you want a film about the Xenomorph because this film although explains a lot about its origins does not do justice for the fans. We wanted a film that brought it back to the screen, we wanted to be scared, we wanted more than a psychotic Android and his experiments in genealogy.
My 1 star is for the beautiful scenery and the acting of Michael Fassbender.