Alien: Covenant

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The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

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Alien: Covenant
Overview:
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
Cast:

David / Walter: Michael Fassbender
Daniels: Katherine Waterston
Oram: Billy Crudup
Tennessee: Danny McBride
Lope: Demián Bichir
Karine: Carmen Ejogo
Ricks: Jussie Smollett
Upworth: Callie Hernandez
Faris: Amy Seimetz
Hallett: Nathaniel Dean
Ankor: Alexander England
Ledward: Benjamin Rigby
Cole: Uli Latukefu
Rosenthal: Tess Haubrich
Mother (voice): Lorelei King
Xenomorph / Neomorph: Goran D. Kleut
Neomorph: Andrew Crawford
David / Walter Double: Tom O’Sullivan
Jacob Branson (uncredited): James Franco
Peter Weyland (uncredited): Guy Pearce

Crew:

Art Direction: H. R. Giger
Stunts: Warwick Sadler
Stunt Double: Connor Van Vuuren
Stunts: Lachlan Robbie
Stunts: Joshua Seattle
Stunts: Puven Pather
Stunts: Stephen Murdoch
Stunts: Mark Duncan
Stunts: Neal Horton
Stunt Double: Aston Crabtree
Stunts: Marky Lee Campbell
Stunts: Charlie McEvoy
Stunts: Tony Christian
Stunt Double: Sean Button
Stunts: Kim Fardy
Stunts: Lee Adamson
Stunts: Simon Mak Murrell
Stunt Double: Holly McCredden
Stunts: Simon Farrow
Stunts: Yasushi Asaya
Utility Stunts: Alex Kuzelicki
Stunts: Andrew Wallis
Stunts: Simon Edds
Stunts: Gil Balfas
Stunt Double: Ben Siemer
Stunts: Andrea Berchtold
Stunt Double: Ryan Tarran
Stunt Double: Ashlee Fidow
Stunts: Jade Amantea
Stunts: Zarene Dallas
Stunts: Damien Bryson
Stunts: Blake Lindsell
Stunt Double: Cameron Ambridge
Producer: Ridley Scott
First Assistant Accountant: Ben Breen
Visual Effects: Michael Furniss
Motion Capture Artist: Javier Botet
VFX Artist: Alexander T.H. Browne
Stunt Double: Rosalie Button
Props: Joe Cash
Concept Artist: Rob Bliss
Costume Design: Janty Yates
Assistant Art Director: Andrew Chan
Producer: Michael Schaefer
Conceptual Design: Dane Hallett
Production Design: Chris Seagers
Art Direction: Damien Drew
Conceptual Design: Steve Burg
Producer: Mark Huffam
Art Direction: Charlie Revai
Casting: Carmen Cuba
Conceptual Design: Wayne John Haag
Producer: David Giler
Conceptual Design: Mark Hatton
Producer: Walter Hill
Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
Unit Production Manager: Dean Hood
Set Designer: Belinda Cusmano
First Assistant Director: Raymond Kirk
Director of Photography: Dariusz Wolski
Supervising Art Director: Ian Gracie
Script Supervisor: Merran Elliot
Script Supervisor: Melina Burns
Casting Assistant: Ebony Hardin
Art Department Coordinator: Lauren Wild
Art Direction: Jacinta Leong
Researcher: Lizzy Jane Klein
Casting Associate: Wittney Horton
Aerial Director of Photography: Peter Beeh
Camera Operator: P. Scott Sakamoto
Dolly Grip: Mal Booth
Camera Operator: Matt Toll
Animation Supervisor: Gabriele Zucchelli
Special Effects Supervisor: Dan Oliver
Key Grip: Toby Copping
Creature Effects Technical Director: Maxime Cazaly
Lighting Director: Boyan Baynov
Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Jason McDonald
Visual Effects Editor: Mark Carr
Gaffer: Mark Glindeman
Modeling: Manmath Matondkar
Makeup Supervisor: Lesley Vanderwalt
Set Costumer: Anna Burstall
Set Costumer: Ivana Daniele
Still Photographer: Mark Rogers
CG Supervisor: Alexandre Cancado
Lighting Director: Manjusha Balachandran
Foley: Sue Harding
Sound Effects Editor: Dillon Bennett
Makeup Artist: Tess Natoli
ADR & Dubbing: Derek Casari
Creature Technical Director: Victor Pillet
Visual Effects Editor: Paolo Buzzetti
ADR & Dubbing: Judah Getz
Lighting Director: Spencer Fitch
Hairstylist: Rebecca Allen
Hairstylist: Lara Jade Birch
Costume Supervisor: Robyn Elliott
Set Costumer: Dan Owen
Sound Designer: Oliver Tarney
Costume Coordinator: Bronwyn Doughty
Costume Coordinator: Maria Salcher
Lighting Director: Leonardo Bianchi
Visual Effects Producer: Sona Pak
Rigging Gaffer: Mark Jefferies
Visual Effects Supervisor: Charley Henley
Lighting Director: Britton Plewes
Assistant Costume Designer: Mark Campbell
Camera Operator: Damian Wyvill
Steadicam Operator: Andrew AJ Johnson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Anthony Smith
Creature Effects Technical Director: Francis Leong
Creature Technical Director: Will Fife
Lighting Director: Matthieu Paugam
Modeling: Luke Wilding
Visual Effects Editor: Lukasz Bukowiecki
Key Hair Stylist: Jennifer Stanfield
Animation Supervisor: Alexandre Ronco
Lighting Director: Elisabeth Leeb
Modeling: William Bell
Visual Effects Producer: Tomi Nieminen
ADR Supervisor: Rachael Tate
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Massey
Costume Supervisor: Sarah Robinson
Costume Illustrator: Anna Haigh
Characters: Dan O’Bannon
Set Designer: Andrew Kattie
Set Dresser: Dion Boothby
Camera Operator: Ben Ruffell
Screenplay: Dante Harper
Third Assistant Director: Greg Tynan
Set Designer: Kate McCowage
Foley: Jack Stew
Second Assistant Director: Scott Lovelock
Location Manager: Mary Barltrop
Sound Designer: Michael Fentum
First Assistant Editor: Laurence Johnson
Assistant Sound Editor: Alex Ferguson
Set Designer: Tony Drew
Assistant Sound Editor: Arabella Winter
Additional Editing: Cheryl Potter
Music Editor: Tony Lewis
Set Designer: Alasdair Mott
Assistant Editor: Justin Tillett
Characters: Ronald Shusett
Location Manager: Jeremy Peek
Third Assistant Director: Matthew Webb
Second Assistant Director: Danielle Blake
Original Music Composer: Jed Kurzel
Screenplay: John Logan
Story: Jack Paglen
Story: Michael Green
Stunt Coordinator: Kyle Gardiner
Art Department Trainee: Jessamy Hadfield
In Memory Of: Julie Payne
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Construction Foreman: Peter ‘Babylon’ Owens
Set Dresser: Brodie McLennan
Greensman: Stefan Henkes
Construction Manager: Sean Ahern
Props: Sandy Kelly
First Assistant Director: Drew Bailey
Sculptor: Leyla Gashe
Assistant Art Director: Nicholas Dare
Swing: Hannah MacDonald
Assistant Art Director: Jenny Hitchcock
Construction Foreman: Ian Bickerton
Props: Ellisha James
Props: Chris Marinovich
Assistant Property Master: Chris Tomkins
Scenic Artist: Joe Worley
Set Dresser: Nikki Peace
Leadman: Christopher Bruce
Assistant Property Master: Joanna Pullen
Drone Cinematographer: Ewan Donnachie
Second Assistant “B” Camera: Jake Koning
Costume Assistant: Nicola Greenwood
Animation Fix Coordinator: Linda Manouan
Dolly Grip: Michael Vivian
Electrician: Steve Grainger
Rigging Gaffer: Sean O’Neill
Compositing Supervisor: Patrick Tasse
Camera Operator: Calum McFarlane
Digital Imaging Technician: Ryan Nguyen
Lighting Technician: Sami Gustafsson
Second Assistant “C” Camera: Jac Norton
CG Supervisor: Robert Allman
Second Assistant “D” Camera: Inaki De Ubago
Still Photographer: Matthew Thorne
CG Supervisor: Fabio Zangla
Lead Animator: Thierry Dezarmenien
VFX Editor: Vikram Prashanth
Visual Effects Coordinator: Caroline Whitehill
Visual Effects Producer: Kilou Picard
Creature Effects Technical Director: Gabriel Leclerc
VFX Editor: Trushna Patel
Visual Effects Coordinator: Lauren Purdy
Visual Effects Coordinator: Irene Armit
Visual Effects Producer: Daniel Matley
Visual Effects Production Manager: Tom Barber
First Assistant “B” Camera: Jason Binnie
Lighting Technician: Thomas McCarty
Costumer: Fiona Warmbath
Compositing Supervisor: Jeremie Lodomez
Dolly Grip: Richard Ward
Costume Assistant: Kathryn Avery
Costumer: Laurie Verling
3D Artist: Marco Capellazzi
Drone Pilot: Guy Alexander
Animation Supervisor: Spencer Cook
Lead Animator: Jason Fittipaldi
Lead Animator: Johnny Spinelli
VFX Editor: Barnes Wheeler
First Assistant “A” Camera: Jay Torta
First Assistant “C” Camera: Scott Dolan
Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Avi Roffman
First Assistant “A” Camera: Christian Luxton
Grip: Mike Mcrae
Animation Supervisor: Phil Morris
VFX Editor: Noami Bourgeois
Digital Imaging Technician: Simon Currie
Grip: Gerard Mahony
Grip: Aaron Rapira
Lead Animator: Christophe St-Pierre Paradis
Camera Operator: Darrin Keough
First Assistant “D” Camera: Jani Häkli
Lighting Technician: Jamie Garside
Costumer: Christina Validakis
Costumer: Bruno de Santa
Animation Supervisor: Raphael A. Pimentel
CG Supervisor: Jason Quintana
Compositing Supervisor: Petra Schwane
Creature Effects Technical Director: Gem Ronn Cadiz
Lighting Technician: Aaron Cordery
Lighting Technician: Nathan Frost
CG Supervisor: Hubert Maston
Visual Effects Coordinator: Lauren Dowsett
First Assistant “A” Camera: Ricky Schamburg
Key Rigging Grip: Theo Thomas
Video Assist Operator: Zeb Simpson
CG Supervisor: Andrew Zink
Compositing Supervisor: Dave Griffiths
Second Assistant “A” Camera: Matthew Spowart
Second Unit Director of Photography: Ross Emery
Camera Operator: Frank Flick
First Assistant Camera: Charlie Whitaker
Lighting Programmer: Pete Gilmour
Digital Effects Supervisor: Audrey Ferrara
CG Supervisor: Manolo Mantero
Lead Animator: Thiago Lima Martins
Lead Animator: Dan Blacker
Senior Animator: Hans Lee
Visual Effects Coordinator: Patricia Leblanc
Senior Animator: Aulo Licinio
Visual Effects Coordinator: Chelsea Mirus
Visual Effects Coordinator: Helen McAvoy-James
Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Butterworth
Special Effects Technician: Chris Leech
Special Effects Technician: Ivan Sainsbury
Compositing Supervisor: Jammie Friday
Visual Effects Coordinator: Jacqueline Hagerty
Visual Effects Coordinator: George Kolyras
Visual Effects Coordinator: Toby White
Visual Effects Coordinator: Zaid Babeel
Visual Effects Coordinator: Gemma Office
Visual Effects Coordinator: Rebecca Vujanovic
Digital Effects Supervisor: David A.T. Bowman
Visual Effects Coordinator: Alberto Herrera
Visual Effects Coordinator: Patrizia Mulè
Visual Effects Producer: Pierre Escande
Visual Effects Production Manager: Tim Pounds-Cornish
Visual Effects Supervisor: Ferran Domenech
Special Effects Technician: Joel Gardyne
VFX Editor: Alex Holcombe
Visual Effects Coordinator: Catherine Martin
Visual Effects Coordinator: Michael Trinh
Visual Effects Coordinator: Abigail Everard
Visual Effects Producer: Jason Bath
Special Effects: Steve Scott
Special Effects Technician: Genevieve Bevan-John
Special Effects Technician: Tristian Haddon
Visual Effects Coordinator: Alannah Belanger
Visual Effects Coordinator: Matt Knight
Visual Effects Coordinator: Lee Maher
Senior Animator: Hennadii Prykhodko
Visual Effects Coordinator: Sara Lucia Alvarez
Visual Effects Coordinator: Paul Docherty
Visual Effects Coordinator: Adam Lawrence
Visual Effects Coordinator: Miranda Middlewood
Visual Effects Producer: Nicolas Delval
Special Effects Technician: Richard Georgeson
Special Effects Technician: Dagan Jurd
Special Effects Technician: Nathan Merren
Visual Effects Coordinator: Pat Nadeau
Visual Effects Producer: Priyanka Balasubramania
Visual Effects Producer: Martin Lake
Special Effects Technician: Hauk Olafsson
Special Effects Technician: Tony Watt
Special Effects Technician: Phillip Young
Compositing Supervisor: Alex Lay
Matchmove Supervisor: Jin Yong Kim
Visual Effects Coordinator: Amanda Barrios
Visual Effects Coordinator: Pranoy Roy Chowdhury
Visual Effects Coordinator: Craig Saxby
Special Effects Technician: Stephen Imhoff
Visual Effects Supervisor: Stuart Penn
Visual Effects Supervisor: Adam Paschke
Special Effects Technician: Paul Reddin
Visual Effects Supervisor: Brendan Seals
Special Effects Technician: Tim Riach
Visual Effects Supervisor: Marcus Dryden
Visual Effects Supervisor: Christian Kaestner
Special Effects Technician: Cris Alex
Visual Effects Coordinator: Sarah Moussaif
Visual Effects Supervisor: Jim Gibbs
Special Effects: Vincent Désilets
Visual Effects Coordinator: Nicole Maria Nonis
Visual Effects Coordinator: Raphaelle Weisz
Visual Effects Production Manager: Carlos Ciudad
Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Round
Visual Effects Technical Director: Laura Languillet
Special Effects Technician: Adam Kealy
Senior Animator: Bartek Kujbida
Visual Effects Coordinator: Diana Roldan
Stunts: Jack Kingsley
Property Master: Rebecca Cohen

Catogories:
Science Fiction,Horror,Thriller
These addons are beautiful.

The path to paradise begins in hell.
Language:
English,Deutsch
Production:
United States of America
Company:
20th Century Fox,Brandywine Productions,Scott Free Productions
Popularity:
137.647
Date:
2017-05-09
Year:
2017

Simon Foster: “At times a thrilling, stomach-churning journey, but one that leaves those on board wondering if the disorientation and down time was worth the investment…”
Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2017/5/8/alien-covenant.html
CraigJamesReview: Alien Covenant marks the third Alien movie directed by Ridley Scott and the second prequel to the franchise after Prometheus. They also seem to be getting worse with age.
Prometheus was really a lot of questions searching for answers, ambitious in asking not only about the creation of alien life, but human life as well. However the plan to stretch out these topics into 3 or 4 movies should be met with some skepticism.

Especially considering the basis for this was started by Damon Lindeloff, the creator of Lost and the man most of us are still waiting for answers for most of the things that happened on Lost.

He of course has abandoned this second movie, leaving it in the hands of the far more capable John Logan, but even he struggles to find meaning here, or escape the clichés that have started to grow like a Xenomorph in John Hurt’s stomach.

We’re dealing with a whole new crew this time; the Covenant. They are headed on a colonial mission to another planet before an electric shock takes out the ship, the Captain, and 47 other members.

Reluctant to get back into their pods for a 7 year journey, the on board crew responsible for the ship’s upkeep decide instead to answer a distress transmission coming from another planet.

That’s where they find what continues to be the best character in these prequels; Michael Fassbender’s David the Android. His motivations and whether he considers himself human or God is constantly in question and Fassbender’s soft-spoken performance continues to haunt.

I also really do consider Prometheus to be one of the most gorgeous-looking special films of the last decade and this continues that- from the Covenant ship to the grain fields and other vegetation eerily covering the mostly desolate other terrain of the planet.

We also get the first look at the Neo-morph, who is born the same way, seems a bit faster than the Xeno-morph but the main differences are it doesn’t have the Venus fly trap tongue and it can stand like a human. Pretty cool.

Just it’s at this point I should probably say that after Aliens there started to be less reason to want these. Alien 3 was fine, Prometheus I thought could really go either way depending on the sequels, and Alien 4 of course was garbage.

The biggest problem here is that it feels so redundant. We get a distress call, the crew investigates, some background characters do stupid things leading to impregnation, someone says “we never should have come”, final alien chase.

The aliens, when you can see them, are cool, but there is a lot of downtime between them, and a few quality kills does not a 200 million dollar mega blockbuster make.

It’s also really odd that Prometheus does this whole thing of setting up the engineers as the creators of human beings but here they only get one scene and let’s just say those looking for more info about them will get angry.

The promise of some larger conversation is in here somewhere but these movies feel so stretched out at this point that when this does get to the few moments of actually having something to say, it’s hard to get re-engaged.

The characters don’t help either as most just come off like archetypes. Katherine Waterston is the Captain’s widow and really the bargain basement Ellen Ripley here.

Billy Crudup plays the faith-based character, and like the last movie, this movie seems to be including that without ever really giving it value in the meaning of life conversation.

But at least those two have some background. I’m so tired of most of these others. The ones who just go tramping through the woods of an unknown planet or show the decision making skills of the Trump administration. You’re not supposed to make us root for the alien, guys.

Finally i’m no closer to understanding why these movies are necessary. It’s easy to tell what this movie wants to do and it’s even easier to see the twist coming a half hour before it even comes.

There are a few nice kills here, I will give the movie that. If you can remember to wake yourself every time Fassbender and Fassbender (he also plays an android named Walter) have a philosophy conversation, you might find some interesting stuff there too. But overall not enough action or thought to make this overly drawn out series seem necessary.

So I go 5/10. For more reviews, check me out on Youtube here- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY_IvAm1bJADConJhDCuq6A
Gimly: I had a few reservations going in to _Alien: Covenant_. In my opinion there hasn’t been a truly great entry to the franchise since _Aliens_, so I was worried that the statistics were against it. I thought _Prometheus_ was incredible from a technical standpoint, but not a very engaging movie, and I was worried we might get the same here. The trailers had been mostly good but I was worried I had seen too much of the third act in them, and I was worried this would spoil the experience for me a little.
What I was not worried about was within ten minutes of the damn thing starting I would think to myself: “Wow, this movie is really poorly made.”

Well I guess I’m an idiot because that is exactly what happened. And that feeling never entirely abated over the course of the whole thing.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s no “_AVP: Requiem_”, but I was still very disappointed.

_Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
Simon Quinlank: **Limps along under the weight of its own importance.**
I love my films dripping with self importance and this one is definitely one of them. I can’t get enough of these films that positively bubble over with a high handed, serious and arrogant attitude that indicates that there is no film quite as important as this one.

This film knows it all. It knows everything that we- the lowly, pathetic and simple minded audience do not know and could not ever possibly know because we are not intelligent enough to grasp anything, you see?

For such an authoritative, superior and intelligent film – I find it odd that every character stumbles around like a simple minded cretin making unwise decision after unwise decision.

Ridley and his scriptwriters seem to think that they are intellectuals but somehow they just _can’t pull off_ the role of **being** an intellectual.

– Simon Quinlank
Saketh Thota: I agree with most of the negative comments about this movie.It is a gigantic missed opportunity.My biggest issue apart from the utter predictability and nonsensical,inept script,was the disappointment of seeing ‘Prometheus’ mixed up with ‘Alien’
Alien covenant gets locked up in its own self importance while forgetting why we loved ‘Alien’ in the first place.I really wanted to like it but came a way with a huge sense of disappointment
EvilWayz: Not sure about all the bad reviews, I enjoyed the movie. I’m guessing because I wasn’t expecting it to be particularly cerebral. Its a sci-fi/horror flick, I was looking forward to Sir Ridley Scott coming up with new and disgusting ways to terrorize the cast and I wasn’t disappointed. Of course, the android going rogue was pretty obvious, but if the Star Wars franchise can feature a planet destroying space station in 3 of 7 movies, I’ll give Sir Ridley a pass. If you are looking for the loose ends from Prometheus to be tied up, I suggest you include Sir Ridley in your prayers so he can survive long enough (the man is friggin 80) to film the prequel to _Covenant_ currently titled _Awakening_ that will hopefully meet your expectations.
Mark Rushow: Watched Alien: Covenant a 3rd time. It is a lot better than first meets the eye. The drastic difference from what we were expecting in direction from Prometheus threw all of us off. We had expectations of what we would get to see and we didn’t get those. There is so much detail and such good acting. It takes multiple watches to pick up on it all. It blends the styles of Alien, Aliens, and Prometheus all together and does it very well. There is also a lot of subtle reference to Terminator 2. The dynamic between the androids Walter and David and the acting that went into that is something quite special. In that alone is a reference to T:2. My first 2 watches I didn’t appreciate the android Walter like the character deserves. I was biased against his character in light of the android David. The android Walter and how he was portrayed also blends the style of android we see in Aliens. The actor’s voice and demeanor reflect that of the android Bishop and gives us a bridge to his design. Michael Fassbender really did one hell of a job acting those two parts of Walter and David. Near the end of the movie there is another nod to T:2 as a beam is clearly marked as such and the scene that follows has a strong T:2/Aliens sequence and taste in styling to it. Through and through the acting is very good. Details are abound everywhere. There are a few points of rather convenient plots however overall the film is now among my favorites right along side Aliens and T:2.
John Chard: Even the monkeys stood upright at some point.
Hee! Ridley Scott, it seems, is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t as regards the Alien franchise he so gloriously kick-started back in 1979. Prometheus was too cerebral for many and definitely bogged down by expectation levels. Not without flaws of course, but a very tidy science fiction piece it be. So we roll on to Alien Covenant, which while not universally reviled, has certainly garnered some fearful scorn in Alien franchise fan circles.

Alien Covenant is a cover version, no two ways about it, it’s a retread of what was showcased in 1979, only with the tie-in to Prometheus and a continuation to the origins of Xenomorph and pals. Clearly we have a case of Scott making one for the fans, a return to chest busting goo and space adventurers under great duress, all of course while he fills in the blanks as well. For sure it’s lazy when put up against Alien, and indeed against his other superlative sci- fi offerings such as Blade Runner and The Martian, but for those who lambasted Prometheus for its non Alien conventions, you have now got what you hankered for. Any expectation of this turning out to be a fresh masterpiece was always going to be crushed, so really it’s best viewed as a loving retread. Yes! Bad science, plot and logic holes, average acting etc, these rightly don’t deserve forgiveness, but it’s hardly the devil’s spawn here, in fact its’s great fun as much as being a visual treat.

Log cabin on the lake.

We start with a prologue involving Weyland and David, the conversation involving creation, the most pertinent of which being the question of the ages, where do we come from? Then after a tantalising tinkle of the ivories for Wagner’s “The Entry Of The Gods Into Valhalla”, we are whisked into outer space 2104 to be in the company of the Colonisation Vessel Covenant. Crew 15 – Colonists 2000 – Embryos 1140. The destination is ORIGAE – 6, ETA in 7 years and 4 months. Only Walter the Android (Michael Fassbender) is awake, until it’s time for the crew to be abruptly awakened from their hyper sleep…

Crusoe and the pathogen.

From the off disaster strikes, thrusting the crew into emotional strife. Characters are introduced, conversations and traits establishing the bare minimum that we need to know, then a ghost transmission is received from Sector 87, planet number 4, and off we go into familiar territory. Things inevitably go from bad to worse and the action, blood flow and creature feature conventions are all laid out for our digestion. There’s some surprises in store, with Fassbender a double bonus, and there’s some striking chatter ranging from if there’s benefits of the human race? and even that involving the poets Byron and Shelley.

Bed Bugs.

Who will survive? If anyone? Just what does the finale have in store? As we get devilish answers, and the barn storming aural pleasures of the full orchestral version of “The Entry Of The Gods Into Valhalla”, it’s tied up nicely and the pulse rate can settle. Job done. No bar raising here, no film to push the space lander out into new dimensions, just a good honest sci-fi thriller to be viewed with that in mind. 7/10
Reno: **Good robot! Bad robot!**
After some gaps, the ‘Alien’ franchise came alive with the prequel ‘Prometheum’ which originally said to be a spin-off. Particularly, it landed in the hands of the original maker. Now, even the original title back in action. It’s another prequel, hence the prequel series on the making. The next film too will be the same kind, before the overall storyline in the franchise align in a straight line.

I enjoyed it. But not as good as ‘Prometheum’ or the first two ‘Alien’ films. The issue with it was, the same old cliché. There’s nothing in the story. It was like any space film that’s set in a similar fashion. The 80 per cent of the film was what we had seen in the earlier ‘Alien’ films. Just altered scenes with a new cast and a great visuals. So the update makes it the special.

The story focused too much on the robot. The alien parts were reduced. Because it was like the first appearance of the original aliens we saw in the old films. Precisely to say, the origins. Genetic modification, crossbreeding, there comes the beast. From this film what I have learnt was, it was nothing but more or less the same old fear the humans have about that the robots which are the ones going to make humans go extinct. Except here the aliens come between them. Hence, falling prey to the same clichéd theme from any sci-fi that had humanoid.

Nevertheless, well maintained film in its balance coming from previous hits in the series and going forward to bring more hits. This flick would serve as a fine bridge between them. So only 18 years to go between this, from 2104 to 2122. I’m already anticipating the next film. As I have heard, that film would be focused more on the robot. That’s going to be a different experience. Fassbender’s time to have some space adventures.

_7/10_
Patrick E. Abe: I paid to see the movie, just to see what all the hype was about. It’s a mess, of course, from David going Nazi and practicing genocide, to the mindless violence of “an earthworm impaled on a hook to catch fish,” to space idiots/children who aren’t smart enough to be hall monitors.
I had wondered why some folk considered the first three “Alien” movies Canon and NOT the current set.
I’m with the “three and done” crowd, this movie is a Hollyweird popcorm flick.
“Do not watch this movie. God complexes and stupidity abound. Stay away if you value your peace of mind.” (Repeating acoustic beacon)
AnAwe: Though Michael Fassbender did a sublime job and the movie itself was visually immersive, the actions of the main characters did not seem very smart. I could forgive the decision that the newly installed captain Oram (Billy Crudup) took about going to the unknown planet. But everything that happened after David cut his hair exactly the same way Walter head just makes you shake your head in amusement and think ‘Oh, come on!’.
David, obsessed with the act of creation that had value in its end, uses any means available. It is remarkable that no one from the remaining crew has questioned imposter Walters’s identity and just carried on like the worst was left behind. Meanwhile, the last scene when Daniels (Katherine Waterston) realizes (finally!) that Walter is, in fact, David and she had totally screwed up with the thousands of colonizers and embryos on the ship… does give you slight goosebumps.
Repo Jack: I would hate to be in the shoes of a filmmaker that needs to please a rabid fan base. The “Star Wars” sequels are a perfect example of this. Ridley Scott has the same challenge with the “Alien” prequels which you see in user scores.
I loved “Prometheus” with its attempt at something bigger than just more face huggers and xenomorphs wreaking havoc. It was clear he was building a grander story to the eventual bridge to the original “Alien.”

He continues that bigger story with “Alien: Covenant” and whether he meant to provide fan service or not, we get that with face huggers and xenomorphs. (No spoiler as both are in the trailers.)

Do yourself a favor and watch the short clip “Last Supper” (youtu.be/EkXgRlRao5I ) before you watch the movie. At only five minutes, it gives a better introduction of the Covenant crew than the movie does providing deeper emotional investment in these characters.

Ultimately “Alien Covenant” delivers an excellent, fast-paced sci-fi action horror thriller (yes, it hits that many genres) like only Ridley Scott can that continues exploring the “Prometheus” theme of creation.
r96sk: I like how gory ‘Alien: Covenant’ is, though apart from that there isn’t much to shout about. It’s good, but that’s it.
I’d say it’s one of the weaker cast lists of the franchise, not that I have anything against the performances here but I wasn’t blown away or overly interested in anyone in this 2017 production. Michael Fassbender is the obvious standout from an acting viewpoint, though I don’t really dig his character all that much to be honest. The rest are a bit forgettable.

You can tell it’s well made and it does look the part, with it being worth the watch to complete the franchise and all that. Of the sixth films, though, it’d be in my personal bottom two (*excl. short films) – in fairness, that isn’t as bad as it sounds, it’s just the series has seen better.
CinemaSerf: Initially, I thought this was just a pretty shameless attempt to attach the “Alien” brand to the really mediocre “Prometheus” (2012) but to be fair, it is just a little more than that. The crew of a colonial exploration ship are heading to a new word when their crew are tempted by a bit of John Denver, and divert to a seemingly far more suitable planet. Of course, once they land they begin to realise that nothing is as idyllic as they had hoped, and getting off as soon as possible is now the order of the day. It’s almost 40 years since the first film of this strand, and that renders most of the shock value pretty impotent. We have all already been through the gamut of terror that these stories deliver and even though Sir Ridley Scott is an old hand at creating a sense of menace, it’s all just a bit so what with this predictable plot that ends, then it ends, then it… ends! Michael Fassbender is quite effective as “David” but the rest of the cast, including the usually reliable Billy Crudup have little by way of original substance to get their teeth into. It is certainly a good looking film, but that’s what is expected, it is the derivative storyline that lets it down. Indeed, it did remind me of an old “Star Trek” episode with some mythological “Sirens” thrown in for good measure. Still, it is quite watchable, just not a film I expect you will ever remember.
GenerationofSwine: Well, it’s slightly better than Prometheus, that’s something. It’s a little bit closer to the monster movie that was Alien…but closer does not mean that it comes anywhere near being as epic as it’s 1979 mother…queen…whatever.
It’s still putting on airs. It’s still living under the delusion that it’s something closer to “Chinatown” than, well, a monster movie in space.

I don’t want to see an Alien movie that thinks its “Raging Bull.” It doesn’t really work that way. I want to see and Alien movie that knows its an Alien movie.

Simplify Man!!!!!!! You’re a monster movie in space…most of the time…and a space marine movie the rest of the time. Either way you have no reason to throw so much crap against the wall. You don’t need it all to stick!!!!!

You’re an Alien movie, you don’t need to be deep, you just need to be scary. that’s all you need to do. And, maybe have Ripley, because she rocked.

But, honestly, the Alien movies are monster movies.

These films have forgotten that.
Cuzzin Coo: **Good Sci-fi** 👍🏾
Filipe Manuel Neto: **With strengths at a visual and technical level, it would be much better with a more developed and better written script.**
I don’t know if I’m the only person to say this, but I think a horror movie works better if we see some intelligence in the script and in the characters’ attitudes, and if the main antagonist is mysterious and able to surprise us. I liked “Prometheus”, a film better than expected, albeit with a confusing script. This film establishes a clearer, more palpable link between that film and the “Alien” franchise. The script accompanies the “Covenant”, a colony ship filled with people in hypersleep. The ship receives a mysterious signal from a planet that, by all indications, has excellent conditions for life, but quickly realizes that it has stumbled on a place where it should never have landed. After seeing the film, I had the feeling that we were looking at a very solid work that only lost when compared to the original franchise. Perhaps the best way to be fair is really to avoid this comparative exercise, which is seductive and almost impossible not to do.

Shall we start with the good things? Very good! The film is a sight for sore eyes, especially for sci-fi fans and for those who like very visual films with high doses of special effects, CGI or extraordinarily detailed scenarios. There is no doubt that the budget had a generous slice set aside for computer technicians, art and costume designers and cinematography, and this investment has paid off handsomely. Everything is accompanied by an excellent soundtrack and good sound effects. And of course, there are lots of tense scenes. It is one of those films where the tension is permanent, but which never really scares us.

Sadly, that’s basically all this movie has to offer us. Fans of the Alien franchise will ensure that the film clarifies several gray points in the narrative of other films, such as “Prometheus”, and I agree with this argument, but this does not seem to me to be something that we should overestimate, because it really was the least that could be done. demanded from this film! At the script level, it is frankly disappointing: in addition to being lazy, making the most of what was done for the other films with which it is linked, it adds few new things. Yes, it creates some new creatures, “cousins” of the original xenomorph, but that’s all. The human or semi-human characters are silly, devoid of development and seem to be waiting to be killed.

The film starts out great, but becomes slow and tiresome as it becomes predictable. I have a high regard for Ridley Scott’s work, I think he’s a very skilled and credited director, but it’s hard not to acknowledge that he failed here. The director was dazzled by the amount of CGI potential and neglected the narrative, editing and direction of the actors. Among the actors, Michael Fassbender stands out the most. The actor has given us one of his best works so far. Katherine Waterston also did a very good job. The rest of the cast doesn’t have the time or material to do anything special.

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