I did like the Alien movie franchise, at least somewhat, and Ridley Scott had always been a director I thought was highly talented. But his latest installment of the Alien franchise was way below the standard he had set years ago with the first movie Alien.
I remember the chilling first Alien movie well. It reminded me of the old black and white movie called It! The Terror from Beyond Space. I knew from the beginning that the first Alien movie was a copy of that movie, but it was no big deal to me. Fifties movies should be redone. I'm still waiting for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers to be redone, but I digress.
The latest Alien movie sucked. "Covenant" is so full of holes that it's a sieve. And Scott's directing was a total disappointment. First you have a space woman acting like a crazed 10 year old the first moment that trouble hits. Then she locks her friend, another space woman in the room with the sick guy who's getting the "alien" bursting out of him. Never mind that there was plenty of time to let her out before the monster baby alien popped out, but that would have been too logical.
Before that you had the spacemen disembarking from their landing craft with no breathing apparatus whatsoever. They are breathing another planet's air without testing for pathogens or dangerous elements that might infect them. And of course, that's exactly what happens. It was just too stupid and unbelievable.
Finally you have the redone concept of the robot going bad. How many times have we seen that in movies and sci-fi stories? Even the first Alien movie had that bad robot concept. It's tiring. And here we go again.
The bottom line is that when I see the characters acting stupid and completely illogically, then I can only call that movie stupid and not worth watching. It is what happened in Covenant, and I'm sorry I wasted my time watching it. Probably the worst of the lot.
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