The first reviews for the long anticipated Alien: Covenant are here, and while they’re mostly positive, they aren’t great.
Check out some of the major ones below:
EW: Alien: Covenant indulges in a spectacle that’s been missing from summer movies for the past decade or so. It grosses you out and then laughs at you while you puke (not literally).
The Wrap: An interstellar version of Friday the 13th, with a respectable ensemble of actors as the camp counselors and various fanged slimeballs filling in for Jason Voorhees.
Dread Central: Alien: Covenant is cruel and scary – it’s a hard R, and the suspense levels are off the charts. The monsters … are believable and terrifying.
Daily Dead: The big-picture conversations that Scott and his team of screenwriters pose in Covenant are intriguing and comprise the majority of what makes this latest Alien installment so interesting.
Collider: Whether you want a Prometheus sequel or an Alien movie, you want a movie that feels cohesive, and there’s no denying Covenant is a structurally challenged film that feels more like two movies slapped together in the name of audience appeal.
CBR: Be warned that Alien: Covenant is about 40 percent Alien, 50 percent Prometheus and 10 percent absolutely bonkers.
We Live Entertainment: Alien: Covenant is full of bad decisions, both by the creative team and by the characters themselves. There are good set pieces in Alien: Covenant, but the story connecting them is nonsense.
Den of Geek: Here is a pretty-looking and aesthetically dazzling picture that dryly remakes the original 1979 classic with all the perfunctory effort of a master being commissioned to trace the lines of a previous work.
Guardian: The film is very capably made, with forceful, potent performances from Waterston and Fassbender. That franchise title is, however, looking increasingly wrong. It is a bit familiar.
Screen International: Covenant raids its own trope cupboard, recycling plot points like the exhausted air in a ship that’s spent too long in deep space.
Uproxx: What started out as a simple ‘let’s run away from this scary thing’ is now so bogged down in its own mythology of why these scary things exist, it’s almost unrecognizable.
At the time of writing this article, the film has an 80% which is still pretty good. I guess we’ll all have to make our own judgement of the film, when it comes out on May 19th.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
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