I'll give my opinion filled with spoilers of course, and sorry for my poor English. I liked: mostly the first part, the gorgeous shots of the covenant with it sails fully open and the arrival to the planet. The relationship Walter/David and what it implied more than what they showed. What I didn't like and this is the long part: the many mistakes made by the crew and the silly security decisions. Starting with arriving to a planet with unknown biosphere (bacteria and viruses you don know) without at least hazmat suits, that would be difficult for the plot to evolve since the first contagion is via air, but that is exactly why you always wear your spacesuit! Same plot holes from Prometheus, scientist not acting scientifically. After that they arrive to a new civilization and they act like if something they see every day, no awe or anything, the one more mesmerized seems to be Walter. And from there my suspension of disbelief totally disappeared. A Tennessee that allows the covenant to get closer to the ground risking the whole mission as if it was a common expedition. The quick way the show what happened at the arrival of David and how little we still know about the engineers. The stupid way David lures the captain into watching the egg and how quickly the xenomorph evolves from a small being into a huge one in a few minutes and with out eating... And the ending, how is it that David is authorized to have any type of interaction with MUTHUR and why MUTHUR doesn't react to him being on the ship as she reacts to a unknown life on board... I could say way more but I probably already bored you. I think is a 6/10 a lost opportunity, they tried to blend alien, aliens and Prometheus and do a lot of fan service in one movie and didn't work for me. Is not a bad movie but is not what I expected, liked Prometheus way better.
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Incident Light
(2015)
Irrelevantly beautiful
7 September 2016
A movie is above all a story. It can have an excellent production and ambientation to an era, beautiful photography and even refined music, but if it doesn't have a story worth telling in its heart all is left is the aesthetics just as empty as a screen with only explosions and bullets flying around with no content. The actors do pretty good with the script and the story they are given but their acting is lost in the meaningless story. Some stories are meant to be told, some others are only relevant to the families that live through them and the script and the story seems only relevant to the family in the movie and probably the directors family but not anyone else. A 15 minutes short film could have told what the director took 95 mins to tell. When in a theater 20 out of 30 people fall asleep you are doing something way wrong, or the way we argentines call it, un BODRIO.
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