Alien: Covenant
Covenant is Ridley's Clone Wars, people didn't like Prometheus (The Phantom Menace) so he gave them what he thought they deserved, what they 'wanted'. As a result we get this kinda petty and irritable film, he gives us the Alien but now David made it, people liked Fassbender so now there are two of them, there's another, even more Ripley, Ripley. It's built out of the wreckage of Prometheus and memories of Alien. It comes across as more a remake of Alien than a sequel, distracted by what people thought Prometheus should or could have been, rather than trying to continue its story.
Much has been written about the various slip-ups and prat-falls made by the crew in film, they wonder off on their own, don't consider that the IDENTICAL androids could have switched place and generally don't do any due diligence. People in the Alien franchise have always made stupid decisions of corse, it's often even the inciting incident. But the problem is the Audience have seen those films, we have information that characters don't and we can't banish all knowledge of Alien from our minds and see the movie in a vacuum. Covenant's largest sin is not evolving with it's audience, it needs to come up with tricks we've not seen, the characters need to be as smart as us.
On a larger scale, I'm not sure what the film is about, it's framed with stories about god, meeting god and belief. But the idea that David has killed the engineers and has moved on to killing all the humans isn't particaully unpacked. It feels like the first season of a mystery box TV show that got canceled halfway though and had to put an ending together real quick. The script genuinely doesn't feel finished, characters on the ship appear and disappear at random and we never get to know any of them, this leaves their deaths empty. Again it's so busy trying to prove something, to show that Ridley can still do Alien, that it does nothing, there's no musing or themes or questions, just badly shot action.


