Alien: Covenant - Movie Review 

The only real issue I had was with the TERRIBLE choices every single person made. I mean, my God, these people were supposed to be colonizing a planet. I wouldn't trust them to run a lemonaide stand.

I hope James Franco gets an oscar nomination for his great, lengthy performance.

No one loves Michael Fassbender like Michael Fassbender.

People that didn’t hate Alien: Covenant: Chris Me Ridley Scott

That James Franco, man. His performance in this film was hot. He was on fire throughout the first act.

I liked Prometheus too.

possibly the most incompetent crew in the alien franchise.

Alien: Covenant accomplished a milestone. Some of us wanted the entire crew killed off because there was not a single likeable character.

"Probably the third or fourth best Alien film"? UMM THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING THE 3RD BEST AND 4TH BEST ALIEN FILM...

Spoiler!!! Anyone who saw the ending twist coming a mile away, get over here!

When the entire plot of the movie can be derailed if the characters wore helmets. A great example of "just because you can breathe it, doesn't mean you should".

I thought Prometheus was better. AC was choppy, and the quick growth of the Aliens was questioning. The one scene that had me laughing was the tiny fully formed Xenomorph that rose from someones chest and raised its arms to David, What?

Bad plot. Bad characterisation. Amazing production design. Amazing cinematography. Wonderful ideas.

This movie felt like a series of unconnected events, loosely strung together by a weak thread and stupid decisions.

Am I the only one who really disliked the fact that multiple scenes were shot from the aliens' perspectives? It just took away most of the tension for me.

Hated this film, the whole theatre burst in laughter when the captain trusted David.

This movie was already doomed, when they decided to listen to the complaining "fans". We end up with a mix between Alien, Aliens and Prometheus. Until now, every Alien movie had a theme: - Alien: Horror - Aliens: Action - Alien 3: "Misery, misery, misery... that's what you've chosen" - Alien Resurrection: Comedy - AVP : "Freddy VS Jason worked, right?" - AVP:R : "Maybe it works with stupid teenagers and without... the light?" - Alien Covenant : "You know, we're already working on the title for the next one: 'Alien 6', ... does AVP count? So 'Alien 8'? Whatever, just call it 'Alien Isolation'... wha... wait... WHAT!?" ... "At least we try to be creative, Michael Bay! Wait, how about 'The Last Alien'?"

Most people complained not about the lack of Xenomorphs, but about the lack of common sense in the script.

Chris please do a review for *Blade Runner* before the new one comes out 🙏

Great vid Chris. For the record, I love Alien: Covenant. David's progression makes perfect sense. This and Prometheus are almost like two halves of a whole...

Here before anyone has time to say 'I'm Mary Poppins y'all'

Xenomorph grew up inside Chris. Get it? hehe

I loved the world building, the big picture focus of Prometheus. I didn't mind the absence of Xenomorph or the things that people were expecting from an Alien film. The answer that they were seeking and the journey they made for it, that whole process kept me interested in it. While watching Covenant, I missed this aspect of the Prometheus and now I understand why Scott went this way. To bring it in line with originals and to give people what they wanted (Xenomorph) he sacrificed on the bigger picture. I can't imagine where the story would have progressed had he not been influenced by the feedback.

If you love the Prometheus story, you might be a little disappointed.

I liked this movie. It was gorgeous, unique and the soundtracks were beautiful. The only thing i had a problem with it was that they killed off Shaw. She was one of the main highlights from Prometheus.

Sadly I didnt really care for this one and I'm a huge fan of Ridley Scott and the Alien franchise. I dislike the absence of science in a movie concerning space exploration. "Come, let us bathe in these alien waters before we test them for microbial life that could kill us!" There was a lot of stupid in this movie and while Prometeus had its fair share at least there were some surprises. Covenent telegraphed the plot and really gave me nothing new. All that aside Danny McBride was awesome and the special fx were really good.

I enjoyed Prometheus a lot. Didn't really expect any Xenomorph because I was told it's an origin of alien... So didn't expect to see anything much . and man I was glad I wasn't. And damn... Tbh I didn't like Alien Covanant.

The best part of Alien....was that WE KNEW NOTHING about the origin....

The original Alien simply can't be topped. I'm still gunna see this movie though

Is this a sequel reboot, also known as a "sea-boot"? A soft sea-boot? Or is it a soft sequel sea-boot reboot prequel?

The scene between “D” and “W”, one life form trying to explain an equal how to live a life is sublime.

I facepalmed so hard and so frequently during this movie that I most likely suffered a concussion. To anybody who hasn't seen it: SPOILERS IN COMMENT! These people were responsible for colonizing a planet. Did they have absolutely no training or intelligence at all? Let me provide some examples: - Let's explore an unknown planet; in camping gear and not space suits or otherwise effective protection *facepalm* - Let's by no means react to the fact that this planet has life on it *facepalm* - Let's assume a specific plant is wheat, even though Triticum has thousands of very different morphological variations. (And this is an alien planet with millions of unknown plant species). *facepalm* - Let's land in water, even though we apparentl know that we have a possibly damaged hull *facepalm* - Let's not comment or speculate eagerly that we found signs of intelligent life *facepalm* - Let's touch random things on an alien planet for the lols *facepalm* - Let's ignore when we start feeling ill within hours on this alien planet, claiming that "everything is fine" *facepalm* - Let's call for pick-up to get our sick individuals to the super important, expensive colonization ship immediately *facepalm* - Let's lock the sick individual in a room with another healthy person instead of a medically capable android *facepalm* - Let's call for help in incoherent screams and cries without informing the colonization ship of any details of the situation *facepalm* - Let's crawl when in danger, like in any horror movie, like we suddenly lost all bodily functions *facepalm* - Let's shoot in an apparently very highly explosive shuttle with firearms *facepalm* - Let's follow the obvious alien sympathizer into a dark room full of eggs, looking at them from a close distance and touching them exploringly *facepalm* - Let's get the colonization ship with thousands of lives in it within a very dangerous distance of the planet, risking everything *facepalm* - Let's send a pick-up to get people from the planet where everybody died in disease or an otherwise violent gory death within hours *facepalm* I could go on forever. SOOOOO many facepalms. My head hurts now, I need to rest. These people are supposed to be colonizers. Nuff said.

I enjoyed it ,I knew what I was getting and I also enjoyed Prometheus before it . Fassbender is Awesome as David and Walter !

Amazing cinematography but man some of the character decision making (actually most of it) was frustrating

Dumbest characters I have ever seen in a horror movie.

tbh they showed the alien so much i felt no suspense going throughout the movie. they were just monsters and for the most part, its just an action movie. Felt none of the grip and fear that life, for example, had for most parts of the movie.The best part for me personally was that scene when the girl was locked in with the baby xenomorph. That legit felt terrifying. Since they lacked suspense and showed the alien so much, they may as well went further with the gore

I can't believe you don't recognize how the characters were just plain stupid. No one, especially a scientist, would react to the situations and get themselves killed the way they all do. I want my money back.

“There are some bloody sequences that were H I G H L Y S A T I S F Y I N G” - Chris Stuckmann

Honestly even though it was predictable I found it very entertaining to watch and at the end of the day that's all that really matters with a movie.

I grew up with the grew up comments.

Wenger out.

Feel like Chris is getting a load of slack on here now and his "I grew up with" has became a shite joke. Come on he's one of the most consistent and entertaining reviewers on here. Can't just turn on him ...

the most memorable line in the movie: "i'll do the fingering"...

The problem Prometheus has is "too many questions too little answers". But it is a good movie in the end. And I really like Noomi Rapace in it. Was looking forward to seeing her again... 😢

Happy to see positive reviews on this movie.

It felt like things just happening with no real story Land ship Guy dies Alien escapes Alien back Kill kill Get back to ship Fight alien Credits

Gotta disagree with you on this one, I find this movie pretty bad. The review from Critical Drinker pretty much sums it up how I feel about it.

Avatar: The Last Fassbender

I'm watching this on the pooper

Pretty sure the issues people had with Prometheus went far beyond "no zenomorphs".

I think the best option for the franchise now, is to go as low budget as possble. Horror movies make a TON of money, because they get made on incredibly low budgets of 10 to 15 million when compared to covenants 150+ million. The genre is too niche for budgets that high. No more spanning vistas or giant set pieces, as gorgeous as they are. My proposed idea If they were to do a Covenant sequel would be to keep the movie ON the Covenant, just like the original spent almost the entire movie on one ship. Hear me out. The ship is relatively large, it has 2000 colonists on it, a rogue synthetic and at least 2 aliens. We saw during covenant that the Alien was somewhat disobedient when it tried to attack David through the monitor, so have something go wrong during one of his experiments and have the two (or possibly more) aliens break free and cause havoc. A handful of the colonists wake up somehow, the Aliens are on the loose stalking the vents and hallways and David is among the colonists trying to be Walter and remain hidden until he becomes a protagonist at the end. It's contained, it's claustrophobic, It's dark, it's scary, it's Alien.

James Franco had the best role in this movie, my favourite character *cough*

Chris never grew up

Does it also copy the plot line of a popular Lovecraft story?

After watching these reviews, I watched Prometheus for the first time since losing my faith. I lived in a cult. And now I'm watching Covenant a second time. I find an abstract cathartic vibe with these. A passionate pain and anger longing to be released against its creator. These are such rich stories. Sure, there's mistakes made, but I honestly don't mind. And that opening scene with David and Weyland in Covenant, wow. So much subtext there

Will you do a spoiler talk video for this film? I'd love to hear some more of your thoughts on it

Man James Franco's performance was on fire in this movie.

Something worse than the c-section scene? Well I'm fucking sold.

I really love this movie. I feel pretty much exactly the way you feel about the movie. The transition From Prometheus style to Aliens style film was awkward. I am fascinated by David and would love another movie exploring that more.

ARE YOU GOING TO REVIEW the Predator series soon?

Did we watch the same movie Chris? AC is a complete mess. Yes it does look good, but that does not matter one bit when the story is so absurd and the characters are so dumb. I was too upset to enjoy the visuals. Sure there were good moments here and there, but this is Ridley Scott so one has to expect a lot more. If you are going to do another Alien movie at least have a killer script and a top cast. This was so disapointing. RC did a George Lucas. So sad.....

I'm soo jealous all the movie critics get to see this early..

I actually enjoyed this film. My only issue with this film was when we saw the Infant Xenomorph , he already had arms and legs instead of looking like a tadpole . Other than that. I thought it was a great movie.

Loved Prometheus! Saw it with my nephew in an empty theatre - fecking heaven!

This movie fuckn tanked for me, they did absolutely nothing to flesh out the space engineer mythos

I was really surprised by Danny McBride in this film. I love him as a comedic actor which he is known to be but he really stepped up in this movie. I hope there is another movie after this with them. I want to know what happens to the crew and people on this ship.

3 years later, I still love this movie. I found Prometheus to be fun when I first saw it. However, this movie got me hooked on Alien as a whole. I picked up Alien Isolation shortly after seeing this in theaters. I went back and watched the original Alien and Aliens. Safe to say, Alien is now one of my favorite horror movies and Isolation is one of my favorite games. Alien, Prometheus and Covenant are my preferred movies of the franchise mainly because they're solely thrillers. Aliens is great, but I'm not a fan of it being more action. Nevertheless I'll happily watch it.

Just got back from seeing the film. The characters in the film are way more stupider than those from Promethesus and that stupid foolish samurai warrior.

This film is mostly about Ridley Scotts relationship with the franchise. His destruction of it is his creation.

Chris what happen to your more in depth analysis ??? I was hoping so much more from you when reviewing this especially since you are a fan of alien and aliens. How am I even gonna explain this, the lore man the freaking lore, Ridley has royally fucked the entire lore of the franchise, the timeline is now more confusing than before and it adds a lot of questions instead of answering to any of them. 1. In alien and aliens you get a hint that the space jockey (engineer) actually the one created the alien species as a bio weapon, a perfect organism and even in Prometheus you can see the ornament on the wall of an alien queen etc (confirming my hypothesis that the engineer created them) 2. Now David created the alien (spoiler) according to this movie but it doesnt make any sense at all, so he created the egg ??? or does he created the airborne goo that created proto alien too ?? because in Prometheus the goo is not AIRBORNE and even David have to drop the liquid itself inorder to infect someone and even then THE GOO DOES NOT CREATE XENOMORPHS it only infect them and turn them into zombie or something 3. Does the goo disintegrate organism ? create organism ? or twisted the organism that it ingested to ? doesn't make any fuckin sense at all 4. I thought the queen is the one responsible on spawning the alien egg not David. It makes no sense even if David created the queen instead of the egg, why ?? see point 1. 5. The engineer only have 1 planet and in that planet they only have 1 small city ??? I mean we are talking about being that can travel intergalactic and have a technology far beyond man kind, does that sounds a good writing to you ? 6. fuck explanation on why the engineer wanted to destroy us XD (ask ridley dont ask me man) 7. Every single character on the covenant is incoherent and stupid, I assume everyone already watched the film so I'm not gonna explain further but if you want comparison go watch "Life" or even "prometheus" itself because the character is even dumber than prometheus. 8. 70% your entire crew is death and you won't even wake up a second team ? hellooo you got 2000 people onboard they can't be the only crew/team to manage the ship, not to mention the dumbass mcbride endangering the entire ship by going on low orbit. 9. The timeline between covenant and first alien is 18 years (alienanthology.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_Universe_Timeline) and the derelict ship on lv 426 that ripley found is brought by the engineer full of xenos egg, and it has been there for ages because the space jockey got molded into the chair that is how long it is and now david are the one creating them ?? whuat ?? (my head about to explode right now) did david flew that ship too ?? but the pilot is a space jockey O_O........ 10. Ridley completely forget the franchise that he is making and the lore behind it 11. I would rate this movie D instead of B, because interm of suspense, horor and gore it's bad, I can guess almost all of the plot and they took the worse decision that you can think off, where is the horor ?? (you already knew the outcome).

Chris, I like you, but sometimes you are way too much of a fanboy.

I remember at one point James Cameron and Ridley Scott pitched an alien sequel to Fox but eventually turned it down. That could have been great. I'll definitely watch the movie but it's too bad they can never again catch lightning in the bottle. Six alien movies later and we never got a true great movie.

What I love about James Franco's performance is that you can tell "sparks" are flying between him and another character.

Compare the acting in this one vs the original Alien. There’s just no grit and verisimilitude to the characters or the acting, especially by comparison. When the Android guy is by far the most believable character, there’s a problem.

All these "Chris stuckmann grew up with" comments are the reason he doesn't say "I grew up with" anymore 😡😤😢

Alien: Covenant is terrible. How this gets a B, I really can't understand.

I absolutely loved this movie. You’re completely right about it being obvious who was going to die next, and that was disappointing. But the rest of it I thought was outstanding. And I felt that Katherine Waterston was perfect. She’s not quite up to Sigourney Weaver’s level of Alien protagonist, but I did feel that she felt a lot more relatable, and I just really wanted to see her succeed. I genuinely hope that she stars in another Alien movie. To me, this is easily the third best movie in the franchise, and I love it. I could watch it again and again.

apart from the few major flaws, I loved the connections to prometheus. one thing we know now is that the engineers were excited to see the humans but then got killed, so I'm thinking that there was a war between the engineers (for and against humans) and the good ones eventually won, but then David kills them all. I LOVE David in this movie and I can't wait to see what comes next

A B? Seriously? A B? Are you joking?

This movie is awful & a disgrace to any Alien fan.

i fell asleep halfway the movie so predictable

i binge watched all 6 alien movies in 2 days and all considered alien covenant is an A+ for me

I hate how daniel never noticed the big red flag that walter can heal himself and he doesn't need stitches.

Rarely do I deem it necessary to express my opinion when it concerns the primitive entertainment of this backwards era. My quest to locate the Celestial Madonna in this period does not allow for much leisure but as the popular saying of this age states: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." After viewing this particular criticism of a forgotten form of media, however, I feel I must make my presence known in this time period. This motion picture you refer to is an interesting paradox that confounds me. While an impressive technical achievement as far as the images, sound, and production design are concerned, I have witnessed more human behavior and motivations present in the actions of the the mindless automatons that maintain the biofurnaces fueling my chronal transport. You, Stuckmann, profess to have a knowledge of the nuances of this era's cinematic efforts, yet you announce for all to see and hear that you enjoyed being subjected to this, this, MADNESS! Humans who appear to be mentally incapable of logic stumbling through a series of progressively more ridiculous and contrived occurrences towards their unavoidable deaths is not entertaining. It is infuriating. From what I understand, this Ridley Scott is an accomplished auteur with many critical and commercial successes. Foolish primitives! Do you not recognize the ineptness which he wields? This sad, old man is desperately grasping for the glory experienced in days gone by revisiting his past triumphs in a foolish attempt to expand upon what he "created". Pitiful. Once I have found the Celestial Madonna and dealt with the troublesome Avengers, this affront to intelligence will never have existed!

It was awful, if the cinema tickets weren't so expensive I would have walked out.

i love how even chris is kinda getting tired of ridley scott at this point.

The best part of the movie is when the Alien arrives. It looks menacing. It's quick. And holy hell, when it kills, it delivers.

Could you do a review of all the Pirates of the Caribbean films?!!!! Ahead of the release of Dead Men Tell No Tales

God dammit people need to stop naming the chestbursters xenomorphs. Xenomorph was first used by Lt Gorman in Aliens, and it translates to alien form (or other/strange form), Gorman was a weak leader who thought using a fancy word would elevate him above his soldiers. Even Frost had to ask what he meant by xenomorph, and then Hicks, good sport as he is, interrupts and "saves" Gorman by saying it's a bug hunt. So we are actually calling these creatures what the idiot Gorman wants us to call them. The real name of the species almost all people call xenomorph is actually xx121, or xenomorph xx121 to not be confused with anything living on earth. Alien form xx121. Calling the chestbursters xenomorph is like naming all living creatures on earth oxygen breathers.

2:46 unexpected turn...

Unpopular opinion but I liked both this and Prometheus, the only reason people don’t like them is because they compare them to the original movies, but they are entirely separate stories and should be judged as such

This movie was disappointing to me, the ACTUAL alien, the Xenomorph, showed up at the end of the movie

Its taken me a few years to find a fair review, but I also enjoyed this movie. Not perfect by a long shot, but enjoyable. You'll never satisfy everyone.

It's refreshing having the stuckmann point of view because if you listen to reviewers like Angry joe you would think this movie was the worst shit to ever hit theaters in the last 20 years.

There is nothing like finding that your mouth is slightly open and your eyes are wide while sitting in a theater chair. That's that magic of cinema. Great review Chris! P.S. I LOVE Prometheus.

Seems like they got a bunch of spoiled high school students to be astronauts. The girls reaction at the beginning after being sprayed with blood was to lock her uninjured friend in the room. The worst acting I have ever seen.. Felt like one of those Low Budget, Sci-Fi B-Movies. The end picked up a tad but this is an instant forgetter.. Its tragic movies these days are going the way of music.. Like why would they do that

best part of the film was when i realised that i never have to watch this again..for the rest of my life..that flute scene was so unintentionally cringe worthy it made me sweat out of discomfort..what were they thinking..jeez, to think that people get paid for this..

"Watch me, i'll do the fingering" -David 8

Do you need to watch the original alien trilogy to watch Prometheus and covenant?

Chris wanted to love this movie so so bad!! Hahha