User Reviews for Alien: Covenant

Frikilax

CONTAINS SPOILERS5/10 7 years ago

hum...
I might be biased but I thought this was a complete waste of my time !
YES this is beautiful, YES there is some action and YES the aliens (and gory scenes) are great in this movie, but well...
I'm not spoiling there but : how can a crew responsible for 2000+ lives in a colony mission be so incompetent ?
I know the whole point of Alien films is to mix human errors and bad luck to make bad times, but this is just too much !
Overall, the scenario was quite hollow.

I'll be spoiling a bit from now on :
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really the only enjoyable moments were brought by the Synthetic stranded on the planet, this old generation David who served Dr Shaw was the only one bringing a bit of character depth, in the end I only wished he would "win" and was pleased to see that that's what happened.
The complete lack of responsibility from the crew was numbing : who would risk losing a spacecraft with thousands of souls onboard waiting to create a colony in a raging storm just to hope to have a contact with his half ? Who would again risk all colonists' lives and decades of preparations just to visit a planet they barely know anything of, just because they received a lost transmission of some singing ?
I know these are classic ways to bring this kind of situation in films, but the way it was brought was not subtle in the least.
In the end, while it was pretty clear for me that they had returned with the wrong David, this was the only really enjoyable moment.
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Again, I'm encouraging everyone reading me to see for themselves and make their opinion, but for me this was a miss.

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Reply by passy

7 years ago

@frikilax Fully agree. The incompetence and recklessness of the crew was just mind boggling to me. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief to some degree, but the sheer stupidity and clear lack of any sort of professional training or selection for this mission was just too much for me.

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Reply by ThirtyOne34

7 years ago

@frikilax Then I'm surprised you even watched this film after so many previous Alien films... They were all like this... I loved this one by the way, just as I loved the old ones. I was able to set aside the stupidity of the crew because I'm used to it after the other films. I was baffled Ripley could even survive the first films... Every single choice made by a character in the alien franchise is just retarded... But that's the case in a lot of suspense thrillers... I also liked David by the way ;-)

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Reply by Mr. Sackamano

7 years ago

@passy you make stupid decisions when youve misplaced your Iphone for too long lol...and lets face it, you've probably never had a real.job either, definitely not one thousands of light years from home where your friend/Captain just burned alive in front of your face haha yeah, you got this huh? Probaby an app for it...ohhhh Aliens again??? Hold on let me see if the Weyland Play store has anything new to download... there's no making fair weather fans like you guys happy...impossible lol...now do what you sheep are designed to do, and go hate on the new Blade Runner too. Baaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Reply by Mr. Sackamano

7 years ago

@passy you don't even like movies, you're only watched it in hopes of seeing David's 8 incher

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Reply by passy

7 years ago

@mr-sackamano Jeez, take it easy. This is just a movie. If you had fun with this film, good for you.

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Reply by SilentCrow

7 years ago

@frikilax hi, saw this yesterday evening. about the incompetence of the crew I figured it was because they are some of the few humans left so they "don't get to be choosy" about the people they recruit. But you make an excellent point. I think that every Alien movie has not much to offer than the aliens' attacks and how tragically superior they are (although lacking on other subjects). it's always the same canvas with different action scenes, [spoiler] and about David IMO was pretty predictable... I caught myself saying, "...I knew it". [/spoiler] i think the storytelling is weak, so not a total waste of time but definitely below average...

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Reply by massimo2001

7 years ago

@frikilax well, it wasn't for me either. The 1st and 2nd movie reflected the common sense of the 1970s/80s which was authentic at the time. Watching Covenant with this Zeitgeist in mind made it easier for me to watch the entire movie, but still ... I couldn't help but cringe, not out of fear and loathing, but rather the lack of subtlety and incompetence you mentioned. And I've had moments, were my hand wandered to the remote, almost giving up on it...

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Reply by kukreja.vikramaditya

5 years ago

@frikilax [spoiler]Bad leadership when you leave thousands to save one person who might have already been dead and left an old message (though there is a possiblity that they are alive and the information with them is useful). I also noticed that they were poorly prepared for the landing. No safety at all, no gears, no helmets, no firewalls, pathetic safety standards. Even that stupid ass cowboy risked the life of those colonists. Poor leadership team in general. Even when they were inside David's abode, they were just go alone, I wouldn't take that chance even with a cockroach. Only David's character was likable, and that out of the crew members only that lady pilot had some common sense in her. Poor her that the baby facehugger broke the glass and the boom boom later on. After the event too, the lady captain nor Mother bothered to check David/Walter. They even had no backup when things went tits up. They should have known they might get killed. Should done something about it.[/spoiler]<br /> <br /> Sad to see Dr. Shaw in her state. :( Like you said, Bad decisions and bad luck. I liked the movie though.

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Reply by BazileSora

12 months ago

@frikilax I normally don't agree with comments so negative but I really feel like this movie was a waste of time. I accidentally started with Prometheus and thought this would be equally enjoyable. Nope.

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Reply by Frikilax

12 months ago

@bazilesora yeah... i'm usually not that vehement and negative, but this movie hit my threshold :sweat_smile:

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