Alien: Covenant

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2018)

OK, where do I start? First off I don't own a DVD or Blu-Ray of this film, I saw it on cable. The effects are brilliant, but I have a beef on one of the effects which I will go into later. I also read the movie tie-in book which gives one a more in-depth look into the history of the time and people. The passengers, both awake and in stasis, are on their way to terra-form and colonize a planet they hope will give them a brand new start in life. The main and usually only reason people are colonizing a new territory is because of overcrowding and overuse of resources. The book suggests that. Now off humans go to overuse the resources of another planet. The book also says that the states in the United States are no more. In other words the US is just one full entity. Sort of takes the identity from all us Americans. The crew don't even remember the states. I guess American history is no longer taught. It appears that the Weyland-Futani company is the most important thing on Earth. Then there is David. If there is ever a reason not to give robots and androids, if they are ever created, any autonomy he is the prime example. A highly disturbed creation made by a highly disturbed creator. All he does is commit atrocities. He destroys the inhabitants of the planet he is on. Probably a colony themselves of the Engineers from the film Prometheus. Then he obviously either killed Dr. Shaw or, more horribly, tortured her to death. Now he is going to control the fate of the colonists. Now my beef about the effects. As I said the effects are excellent. The Neomorphs are disturbing and disgusting, but the full Alien is disappointing. It is obviously CG effects. What made the Alien so frightening in the first film is its fiendish and sadistic intelligence, but also its movements. Yes, it was an actor in a monster suit, but that made its movements believable as sort of a humanoid. So this movie is OK but Ridley Scott can't seem to recapture the mood, tension and creeping doom of the first film. Also the first and second films had a hopeful end. All the subsequent films don't. Still, recommended for Alien film fans.