Alien: Covenant [Blu-ray]
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
I would have preferred a “Shaw & David finding & exploring the Engineers world” movie, to be perfectly honest. We get some of that here, but only briefly in flashbacks (and the “Prelude” trailer you can easily find on Youtube). While I was disappointed in the drastic change of pace from Prometheus, I still thought it was a solid movie and a good addition to the Alien mythology.
I’m trying to be spoiler free here, so I’ll say only this: If you were a fan of the first two movies in the franchise, and you enjoyed Prometheus, Alien: Covenant should be exactly your cup of tea. You have the crew with their movie-cliche personalities, you have sci-fi space action, you have an android, you have Aliens (new types, as well as the familiar old ones), and of course you have some “twists” towards the end. I thought the final twist at the end of Alien Covenant was especially satisfying.
Worth buying (or at least renting) if you’re at all a fan of the franchise (and I admit, I’m a fan of the whole Alien mythology).
– Jonathan D. Evenboer
I’m a huge fan of the original three films….and Prometheus was decent. But Covenant is just bad. Spoiler alert: The concept of “bad synthetic kills all the engineers and creates the classic Alien creature” just strikes me as lazy storytelling – a desperate attempt to link the original 4 films to Prometheus in one film. I wish the makers would have taken more time (perhaps 2 films) to flesh out something more for serious science fiction fans. A wasted opportunity.
– patrick
two stars for stellar CGI effects and cinematography. the rest is pure drivel. So disappointed with this, they had the whole franchise to build on and yet again we got really stupid astronauts who do the stupidest things. Plot holes galore, broken science facts and imbecile characters just take away the immersion of what could have been a fantastic movie. You just dont change directions in space and drive to the right to check out mysterious planets that havent been scanned before in charted space. The public is already educated on fuel needs, insertion levels, burn rates etc to just buy that whole ‘oh well, lets turn right and drive by eh’ stuff. Why cant the on board computer push the button to deploy/retract solar sails when needed? Why use a humanoid to do that? Why arent the settlers trained properly, in such that when encountering a new planet with new microbes, environment, species, air etc that they dont run around smelling, poking, lazing around etc? Why even send in humans to scout? Why send the entire on board team to scout???? they are so high tech to build a starcraft yet dont have drones to do space repairs or scout missions? why only one landing craft for over 2k settlers and gear?? Why does the medic act like a hair dresser and not do the basic quarantine procedure? What is the back story of the original …
oh just forget it, too many stupid choices. they really needed to preview this and get peoples reactions before releasing this. the script is just terrible. better yet, just watch the movie muted to get the gorgeous space views and cgi
– s abraham
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demian Bichir
Directors: Ridley Scott
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (DTS 5.1)
Subtitles: Spanish, French
Dubbed: French, Spanish
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: R-Restricted
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: August 15, 2017
Run Time: 122 minutes
ASIN: B071YLX9D7
