shaidarharan

The subject is the only pro to this movie. Everything else is terrible. The violence could've been a 2 minute Mortal Kombat 10 highlight. If that isn't your thing, then there is no redeeming quality to this movie. Not worth it for bad movie night. This needed more wild personality and insane dialogue, but instead it's an illogical bland plot orchestrated by, surrounded by, and full of morons. The whole town would have to be a meth disaster at the elementary school level for this to work. Mortal Kombat 11 fatalities are better than this whole movie.

The first two films featured characters that made mostly rational and consistent decisions based on their own knowledge, experience, logic and goals. Then the third movie mixes things up with a crazy and unnecessary prison planet whose results were about as effectual as the abysmal script writing process (FOX ruined things here pretty much). And then the fourth movie, a dark comedy where basically everyone descends from Idiocracy rather than Blade Runner. Queue Prometheus, where people groan as the science officer does a 180 and plays with the black goo cobra. Then the audience outright laughs as someone effectively fails to turn from running under a giant rolling wheel. At this point of the series, I've accepted the denizens of the Aliens universe are extremely dim, inconsistent, and prone to getting Darwin Awards anytime on camera, so as we arrive at Alien: Covenant, I can empathize with the dark turn of the plot and that the humans are boringly ill-equipped at making any correct choices for logical survival. So instead of a 2/10 (great sets and cool sketches), I award another 4 points for the idiot humans who you're happy to see die over and over. 6/10

The 80's neon style, glam and decor are pretty cool in contrast to East Berlin, but the soundtrack incorporation is what really stands out. In the 2000 movies I've seen, I'd say this has the best background music selection, ins, and outs. The heavy techno bass mixing really does theater viewing justice vs home options. I can also listen to Kaleida's downtempo 99 Luftballons on repeat, so thank you to the movie for that.

Then there is the fight choreography and fight cinematography; perfect. No hard to comprehend shaky cam masking a lack of actor skills or composition. And the beatings taken and delivered over and over just increase the smile on the viewers face.

The plot is suspenseful and the turns a fun ride to follow, giving out just enough while keeping the culmination satisfying. I even look forward to seeing it again.