Not necessary

Rating: 5/10 (13 May 2017)

We probably all knew something was off the way the marketing campaign was heading this one. Way too much revealed going for the hard sell. Generally that's a sign someone is trying to hook us for a bum ride.
I grew up loving Aliens almost wearing out my VHS copy I must have viewed it once a week for sometime. After finding Alien and appreciating its gritty aesthetic and suspense filled while simple story telling. After being obsessed with all things xeno related...
So...I was one who did enjoy Prometheus its and its turn towards the sci-fi adventure movie, slightly p*ssed RS gave into the studios and gave us the Deacon and giant facehugger thing at the end.. though I left the movie with an imagination filled with what would follow in David and Shaws adventure flying off in the engineers ship.
Its a shame then that Covenant p*ssed all over that dream and gave us a by the numbers rehash of the first two Alien movies with some titbits of the Prometious plot thrown in to try and glue the two movies together.
What I liked: visually the film looked great, the first half paced well and offered some genuine shocks though with some HUH moments thrown in...this seemed to be consistent throughout the movie...stuff happening that just seemed stupid or comedic. I recall another reviewer saying everyone seemed stupid or incompetent. Perhaps we could not expect a group of colonists to be hardened killers so this could be a little harsh.
David does have some interesting moments and psychotic behaviour though mostly his god/Hitler complex is super clichéd.
Everything involving the xeno is just awful...I have nothing to say.
I did enjoy the neomorph and found it rather creepy. I would say it really is the star of this film. You could just walk out the cinema after the demise of the neomoph and be left thinking at wasn't so bad...stay till the end and you could regret it..
Final conclusion...walking in I said...I hope its at least better than Alien Resurrection... walking out I can't even say it even met that benchmark.