If you thought Prometheus was bad...

Rating: 4/10 (23 May 2017)

Oh man, if you thought Prometheus was a bad movie, then you definitely do not want to see Alien Covenant. I had high hopes for Prometheus and I believe it is better than most people give it credit for. People are just mad due to the fact there were no aliens in it! But, the Engineers were epic and Shaw and David's characters were really cool and well developed. I believed that they had a lot of epic things set up for the next movie! But then came along Ridley Scott and buggered up what could've been an amazing prequel trilogy. What the viewers wanted was; aliens, David and Shaw to go to the engineers, hopefully find answers from the engineers and how they created us and also some answers on the aliens and where they came from. Instead what we got was literal garbage. Have you ever seen a low budget slasher flick? One that has a lot of pop-up scares and really bad effects? This movie was literally one of those but with a $111 million dollar budget. The characters were poorly developed, I laughed more than I cried at everyone's death. I didn't feel attached to any character in the movie like I did with Ripley's character. Everyone died in a gruesome way and there was no real battle, the aliens just killed everyone off one by one or two by one. I was quite excited when David began to explain how he met the engineers, but instead all we found out is that he killed them all. Like, wow! I wanted to learn more about them and how they became to create humans. I thought it was interesting that David created the aliens, it made a lot of sense. But, then to find out he used Shaw's body as a tester, I just officially agreed that the movie went to crap. The only beloved character in the prequels died off screen.When David and Walter fought, I was so happy. I believed that an epic battle was going to save this movie and Walter was going to kill David! Instead we see the two of them throw each other against walls and then they cut to another seen. I think we can all agree we knew that David killed Walter, it was so obvious. Like the movie tried to be sneaky about it, but it was just so obvious! Ridley Scott thought to himself at the end of the movie that they needed to copy every alien movie and have a cliché alien fly out into space. And that, he did perfectly. It was stupid and not needed. I forgot to mention, how stupid was the shower death? So pointless, and no one came to see Alien for nudity! Overall, this movie and this prequel series has gone to crap. It had every chance to be great. With a 'great' director, a great actor in Fassbender and the curiosity of the fans of the Aliens movies, they had the chance to make millions and also make a good movie. Both Prometheus and Covenant had interesting scenes and I think the message that they were trying to get across was interesting, but the little things in between were lost in translation and it was ruined. I hope that the final prequel is better, I really am rooting for it to make a comeback.