I've just got back from seeing it and I feel traumatised, but not in the way I might have hoped. When I was reading people on here and elsewhere hating on it, I just thought that they were expecting too much and would never be happy etc. I really like Prometheus, so thought if covenant is like that but with aliens there is no way I will not like it if not love it. To paraphrase dr. Shaw, I was wrong, I was so wrong.
I cannot believe I am saying this but there was almost nothing to like in there, maybe I am over reacting having just come out but I just don't even know where to begin...
Firstly, I am not even too bothered about many of the things people are generally not liking, such as changes to the lore, pace of the film and so on. I don't think I would have ever guessed it was even a Ridley Scott film. People saying the characters are good, we never learn anything about any of them so we can root for them or even want to see them die, they were just faceless, superfluous fodder. I am also usually ok with cgi and can accept it if it's not too bad but most of it here was shockingly bad, jarring at points, more like a video game. Even Fassbender who I loved in Prometheus is terrible. In Prometheus he was much more nuanced, in this he comes over really hammy like a second rate hammer horror Frankenstein with some of the cheesiest dialogue I couldn't believe I was hearing. Some things I could barely believe what I was seeing, Kung fu robots? A part of me died as I watched. Xenomorph birth? Throw your hands in the air and wave em like you just don't care, I thought I was high. I can forgive some things but there were so many cringe worthy moments in it, typing this I still can't believe it, I've probably been rambling on and haven't read this post back so it probably makes no sense, much like covenant. I could seriously go on and on, maybe I'm just in shock, but I can't ever remember being this disappointed in a film, even though I went in keeping my expectations in check. I need to see it again in the vain hope I've made a terrible mistake, but I would say it is almost straight up garbage. I thought the guy who rated it under resurrection must need his head testing but he might be the sanest of all of us. I need a lie down.