Ridley Scott has a history of making oh-so great movies, and also making pretty terrible films. He directed Blade Runner, Alien and Gladiator, films that are so masterful and great. And he also made films like Robin Hood, Exodus Gods and Kings, and the movie I'm reviewing right now, Alien: Covenant. Let me start off by saying this film is almost awful. There are about a few redeeming factors in this film, but those things barely help the film, and I'll save those factors for the end. I want to start off this review with probably the biggest issue of this film, and that is the whole freaking script. If this script wasn't so bad and if Ridley Scott actually tried, I'd probably give this movie a 7/10 at most. But this script has too many problems. It copies off other Alien films, there are unnecessary things, and also missing things. If I elaborated on the unnecessary and missing things, I'd have to go into spoilers, and I don't want to do that in this review. The script also makes decisions and twists that didn't work for me at all. The ending and the events leading up to it for the most part didn't sell it for me and I simply pretty much hated the whole script. There are also decisions in this film that I didn't fully agree with and there are also A LOT of times where I wanted to scream at the characters because they do really dumb and out of context things. Michael Fassbender plays 2 different robots in this film, and the movie decides to spend a lot of time on these robots "bonding" and I thought it was a complete waste of time. It drastically slows down the movie and makes it boring. Many die hard Alien fans say this film is a disgrace, and I can safely say this film is a disgrace to the franchise as well even though I'm not a big fan of it. The few redeeming factors of this film is Michael Fassbender and Danny Mcbride's acting. They kinda saved this film from being completely awful, and their characters were somewhat likable. The rest of the cast were okay in terms of acting, but their actions and choices ruin it for me. The visuals and some of the intense scenes were very well done and those are all of the good parts of this films haha. Guys, please don't waste your time, stay away from this movie. 4/10

I didn't read the reviews before watching the movie but I did not have high expectation. Still, I was disappointed. Scott said he wants to turn this into a franchise and leave the story open, which means it's possible they will not close down the story and end up to where Alien started. And what that means is that they just want to take people to the cinema to make money and deliver mediocre films.Back to this film, where should I start? It has nothing original, nothing thrilling, nothing spectacular to remember. Instead, it reiterates all the SF cliches (the following is a SPOILER list): big colony ship heading to a distant planetthe crew and other colonists are in a cryogenic sleepan unexpected event wakes them upsome of them die in the eventthey find a planet that looks good and everybody is confidentthey get killed because they are recklesscommunication between teams is brokenpeople are forcibly quarantine along with infested colleagues and diehumans cannot kill the parasite; only the parasite can kill peoplethe bad guy outsmarts everybodyeverybody dies except or a handful that are saved the last momentand so on and so forthThis movie did not answer any questions (how could it be since Scott wants to make at least two more movies) but instead only raised more. It looked like it had almost nothing to do with Prometheus, except for David. It's just a side story in the big picture. We're gonna have more Davids/Walters and more ships in the future. For as long as it still makes some money. For God's sake, HTF did David breed the aliens? Seriously? Oh, and let me guess, there will be some engineers that escaped because they were away (of course, on their planet everybody lives in a single small place, not spread across the entire planet surface). And they will show up in the next film to take some revenge.

When Elizabeth Shaw and David blasted off into space at the end of Prometheus, I was excited to see her next adventure. What we got was NOT this adventure. I loved Noomi Rapace in this movie and to kill off the next possible, iconic female lead in the next step of the franchise was just, well, lame! The Aliens we know don't float as particles and up peoples noses. They get laid in the throat by a facehugger! To be honest, these crazy ideas to create different aliens just makes things too complicated! And the fact that our dear aliens were created by some crazy droid is just........stupid! So, aliens evolved from humans! What was Ridley Scott thinking? You've beyond damaged your franchise and brought nothing new here. Was so disappointed.

I loved the introduction of characters: it was as if we already knew them instead of getting to know them. Unfortunately, though, none of these characters are compelling. The most interesting character is Walter/David, but they in effect cause more confusion and questions than anything else.Fast-paced, interesting and exciting for the first hour and a bit, then it plummets to near boredom, and then ends with a climax that screams for a sequel. I did not like the aliens in this movie, though, as they're made out to be cute instead of evil. Another seemingly unnecessary sequel/prequel. (Prometheus sequel and prequel to Alien). The film is also full of plot holes and flaws. Most importantly: these trained astronauts do not even wear protective gear when exploring a foreign planet!!