Alien Covenant Fan Reviews

[SiL]

None of those are cliff hanger endings. In all of them the threat is defeated and the heroes head off home.

[HuDaFuK]

Yeah, as SiL said, they're open endings, but they're not cliffhangers. They've survived and they're safe.

Covenant literally ends with the survivors in the shit.

If Aliens had ended by actually showing you the egg on board that kills everybody in the third film, then that would be comparable.

[Engineer]

That's what I'm saying! It ended on a cliff hanger and now we're all left waiting on the sequel to find out what happens next!

There's always been an open ending to these films: Ripley in her escape pod in Alien, Ripley, Hicks, Bishop and Newt in Aliens and the prisoners being escorted of Fury 161. It's a trademark of this series.

It's never been a trademark of the series for the films to end like this... Covenant and Prometheus both end in such a way that we have to wait for the sequel to find out what happens to the hero(es). For alien through resurrection, You can stop watching the series after any one film and be happy with it as an ending to the overall story. But Prometheus leaves us wondering what Shaw and David will find as they continue on in their journey, and covenant leaves us wondering what's David going to do with the colonists/embryos on board the ship and what's going to happen to Daniels/Tennessee. It literally forces a sequel to be necessary to continue/complete the story arc. In some film series that works, because it was the plan all along, but this feels more like they're making it up as they go...

[NickisSmart]

Yeah, as SiL said, they're open endings, but they're not cliffhangers. They've survived and they're safe.

Covenant literally ends with the survivors in the shit.

If Aliens had ended by actually showing you the egg on board that kills everybody in the third film, then that would be comparable.

I don't see it a cliffhanger. More like a grim ending.

[echobbase79]

I thought it was pretty bold of Ridley to leave the film on such a downbeat note. The first time I saw it some of the audience members seemed bothered by it.

[Gash]

It's a dark conclusion - like The Omen, in fact like a lot of 1970s horrors and thrillers. Nice to see a return to it.

[Engineer]

I have no problem with a dark ending. I loved alien 3's ending, and that had a dark element. I just don't like sequel baiting....

[Butterfly]

It literally forces a sequel to be necessary to continue/complete the story arc. In some film series that works, because it was the plan all along, but this feels more like they're making it up as they go...

This kind of reminds me of the Resident Evil films, haha. At least Ridley Scott is not completely retconning his cliffhangers by the time the next installment comes al... oh, wait. 

[Snake]

I have no problem with a dark ending. I loved alien 3's ending, and that had a dark element. I just don't like sequel baiting....

Prometheus was the ultimate sequel bait. It raised so many questions, but didn't answer any of them. So I'm glad they took a 180 with AC, where everything seems so simple and obvious, at least on the face of it.

[Engineer]

It literally forces a sequel to be necessary to continue/complete the story arc. In some film series that works, because it was the plan all along, but this feels more like they're making it up as they go...

This kind of reminds me of the Resident Evil films, haha. At least Ridley Scott is not completely retconning his cliffhangers by the time the next installment comes al... oh, wait. 

Lol. I know right?

[Corporal Hicks]

I thought it was pretty bold of Ridley to leave the film on such a downbeat note. The first time I saw it some of the audience members seemed bothered by it.

I really liked the dark ending myself. I love it when the characters are put through the ringer like that.

[stroggificated]

People whined about no Aliens the first time.  There would've been theatres burned down if he left them out again.

Lol. And that's the ironic part of all this. The same fans who complained about the lack of aliens in Prometheus are the same ones complaining about adding the aliens in to covenant. I admit, I'm guilty; I was one of those fans. And I regret having that opinion about Prometheus now. Lol

And I don't blame Ridley for adding the alien back in either...

Don't feel bad.
Including the Alien certainly doesn't mean that Scott should kill off Shaw, kill of all Space Jockeys and turning David in to a super villain.
It's still the director, the writer and the studio to blame for this mess. No one  else.

[Gash]

People whined about no Aliens the first time.  There would've been theatres burned down if he left them out again.

Lol. And that's the ironic part of all this. The same fans who complained about the lack of aliens in Prometheus are the same ones complaining about adding the aliens in to covenant. I admit, I'm guilty; I was one of those fans. And I regret having that opinion about Prometheus now. Lol

And I don't blame Ridley for adding the alien back in either...

Don't feel bad.
Including the Alien certainly doesn't mean that Scott should kill off Shaw, kill of all Space Jockeys and turning David in to a super villain.
It's still the director, the writer and the studio to blame for this mess. No one  else.

Credit rather than blame for the majority of us.

[SM]

 

[Snake]

People whined about no Aliens the first time.  There would've been theatres burned down if he left them out again.

Lol. And that's the ironic part of all this. The same fans who complained about the lack of aliens in Prometheus are the same ones complaining about adding the aliens in to covenant. I admit, I'm guilty; I was one of those fans. And I regret having that opinion about Prometheus now. Lol

And I don't blame Ridley for adding the alien back in either...

Don't feel bad.
Including the Alien certainly doesn't mean that Scott should kill off Shaw, kill of all Space Jockeys and turning David in to a super villain.
It's still the director, the writer and the studio to blame for this mess. No one  else.

Doesn't mean you don't like the direction it's headed that it's a bad film at all.