Alien: Covenant

There are 3 types of sequels/prequel/remakes: those which seek to bank on the success of a given film and reproduce it, with fair to dismal results. That´s about 80%.

Ridley Scott's slick sequel to Prometheus is entertaining enough, but the basic storyline is simply a rehash of every previous Alien movie (all of which Scott claims this isn't a prequel to). Only Billy Crudup's insecure captain stands out amongst the crew members, but Fassbender holds it all together in a dual role.

Bad bad bad... I felt nothing for any of the characters.

The characters in this film make SO MANY stupid, irrational and unrealistic decisions that it's not even funny. Sometimes you can excuse things like that, since if every character in every movie acted 'normally and rationally' then all movies would be significantly shorter in length than what they would otherwise have been...

I loved the 2 first alien movies. The 3rd was okay.

Ridley Scott has crafted an unrelentingly grim dirge full of apocalyptic angst and nihilistic self doubt. Not as misanthropic as The Counsellor but still feels like the work of a man who is a beyond making movies that are merely entertaining but have to pander to intellectual elitism but come off as snobbish and pretentious.

Alien Covenant is a step under Prometheus because several reasons. First an foremost the casting is weaker than it's precursor.

Cannot see the problem the whiny fan boys have with this film, it's an epic science fiction(the clue is in the genre title, fiction! ) adventure, beautifully filmed, great effects and decently acted.

I love the alien and it's mythology but I think that this franchise has been milked for all its worth. There is one pretty intense sequence of this movie that I think is genuinely scary, but one good 5 minute section isn't enough to hold up the rest of this cookie cutter horror movie with a layer of admittedly impressive CGI on it.