Alien: Covenant

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Enrique C. This movie to me is just a better version of Prometheus. Only by a sliver though. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/01/25 Full Review Jack t Well, after Prometheus, you would expect that Alien: Covenant will be getting a prequel follow up after finishing up what's on the table back in the day. Well, you're not getting it because this one really takes the s**tcake at the box office but not a failure but did not break even to make another one to continue up the story so that it could end the story from the prequel franchise properly before the beginning of the 1970's Alien but no, the box office beats the SB on this one. Covenant is en route to colonize the planet Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists and 1,140 human embryos in cryogenic stasis. A sudden supernova burst damages the ship and kills several colonists, including the captain. Android, Walter played by Michael Fassbender, awakens key personnel to address the situation. During repairs, the crew detects a human voice broadcast from an uncharted, habitable planet. Against the protests of his wife Daniels, Chris Oram played by Billy Crudup, who is the new captain now decides to investigate. The crew sends a lander to the planet's surface, where an expedition team tracks the broadcast to a crashed alien ship. With Ridley Scott coming back to the Alien franchise once again to direct this, I went into this with little expectations thinking what will come up next. Before this movie came out, I just bought a DVD box set of Prometheus to Alien: The Evolution because everyone knows and watches them so I decided to watch them myself. Covenant is the similar thing but with a proper looking alien this time known to be a xenomorph and how creepy looking it is and how scary it is I even remember back in that year, I remember playing the game of it called Alien: Isolation. Yeah, remember that game? Yeah, back in the day the first time I played it, it scared the living flying s**t out of me. And stating this years ago, I was planning on not wanting to play this videogame ever again after completing it because of how enormously scary it is but I resisted thinking I'm not a p***y anymore so I will not be fooled after the first time anymore. So with Alien: Covenant, I think I have a similar feeling when it comes to Ridley's direction and even much more blood and gore this time but the ending to this however, that is really something. Similar to the one with Aliens, this is not the end. It takes the direction you'd not be expecting but will do it again because the alien itself never does give up. It'll just keep going and going and going until you are dead. Full stop. Alien: Covenant is another one of those films that really push the boundries of what should makes the Alien film end but ended abruptly without a trace. And now we have an ending franchise that really p**s the bucket not even breaking the box office even like we thought we did but ended with a flawed abrupt mess but we can get over it, can we? And now that this time that this is final Alien film of the franchise and Disney now own the rights of Fox Studios, they'll be having plans of rebooting the franchise by making a memorable one like the one we got from last year called Alien: Romulus which got more hype and considered the memorably best Alien film since Aliens decades ago. So yeah, This might be useful considering. Now Prometheus and Alien: Covenant out of the way, I'm going to be having my full time fun doing what I normally do without any interruptions since I've been thinking about going to the nudy boobler the other day. Okay, if there is a chance, there is a dream. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/31/25 Full Review Helene S the movie has its flaws but i remember it fondly. hot take: the worst part of any alien movie after the first two movies are the aliens. it's boring. this movie focuses on the humans and synth characters. best part of the later alien franchise entries are the synths, and this movie does not disappoint on that front. much better than the backslide that was romulus. this film takes its own special path. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/23/25 Full Review Jake M This film seemed to just do its own thing and ignore a lot of the details from other films. There could have been plenty of chances to pay homage to the originals but I feel like all these chances were missed and it all just got a bit self absorbed. On a second watch of Prometheus, I saw it in a different light and other than a couple of doofus characters at the start, found a new appreciation for it. The same can’t be said for Covenant. On a second watch, my thoughts remained the same. The film was riddled with doofus characters which made me feel no sense of support for them. The alien itself doesn’t create enough tension for my taste in alien films, neither did David. So I didn’t feel any kind of emotion for them either. I just didn’t care about any of it. The film isn’t even fun or silly, which makes it the most disappointing instalment in the alien series for me personally. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/19/25 Full Review Aze D At this point I don't know why I keep watching any Aliens movie or show after the original Aliens Sequel. David kills the engineers homeworld/colony/outpost with a bio weapon because...ummmm...reasons? Maybe because an engineer killed his "father" for no reason in Promethus? and now plays god because....reasons? I can get past the bad decisions of the crew because the movie ends if they just continue their assigned mission or if they follow a quarantine protocol to leave the landing team on the planet. It is still just bad decision after bad decision. The evil robot is now the horror and the actual alien is a barley used plot device. Again, the poor universe building causes more questions. I think Ridley Scott has some meta concept about humanity but I don't get it. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 10/14/25 Full Review Jordan R Honestly, as a standalone movie it's weak. As a Prometheus sequel and a Ridley Scott film it is disappointing. It's watchable when David (Michael Fassbender) is on screen. All CGI looks the same to me since 2008 so I can't comment on that. However, every other character on screen makes the most braindead decisions at every turn possible. It was so bad that I just started looking at David as the protagonist and every human as a vehicle for a faux-Alien gore session. The writing was definitely this film's downfall. Man... what a waste of a good franchise. Most likely some Hollywood corporate money-hungry producers were involved with the creative process. Or Ridley Scott is getting old. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/27/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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