I found acting and plot to be great,if not at times marvelous.Sceneries and visual effects were top notch!The idea of humans exploring space,roaming into the unknown,running into unpredictable and mysterious planets,stories or creatures has always fascinated me. And this film has a little bit of everything.It is interesting and fresh,while it won't only lose contact with the alien universe,but it will add to it.And this is what I love more in a good story.The cosmology/mythology behind the first installments.The beginning of everything,the establishing of a universe with certain "rules" if I may that will make it something more than "an original story from the before the 90's".
So we are given that,at least some pieces of it.Though nothing is unflawed.We have a nice intro and some agony pilling up slowly at the first and then it bursts out!The sad thing that many thing don't really make sense and some characters do things-to put it blunt- completely stupid,things you won't expect not only a scientist to do,but any reasonable human being.And yet there they stand,important scientists,chosen for a classified mission of great importance to explore the possible creators of mankind...And there are some in-continuities.
And let me elaborate... 1.When they first enter the structure they see David using the foreign spacecraft technology and no one questions what had just happened. 2.When they enter the contaminated hall no one got infected.The vessels started acting up,creating something like humidity at first and then something like a gray jell that was moving,like there were worms inside.Then,in the ship Prometheus when David opened up a vessel and came in contact with the liquid inside,he was holding a drop on his finger and it did not get affected at all while he was holding it.Why? 3.In the vessel room we see worms crawling on the ground.No explanation about them and I guess later they turned into alien-like snakes? 4.When they examined the decapitated head that noticed new cells and after some time it exploded.Was he infected before he died?If so,shouldn't't't a creature come out of him?Instead he was destroyed like the engineer at the start of the film.Yet in alien covenant we are shown that contact with the virus equals some strange thing exploding out of your body. 5.While the engineer at the beginning got infected and destroyed almost immediately,when Hollowway got infected it took him many hours to show symptoms.And isn't a scientist inclined to step up when he notices something's wrong with his body?In a foreign planet? With a great possibility of infection considering what they had seen already? 6.A snake-like alien entered one of the crew members body but nothing came out of him,just the same creature that entered a few hours ago....??? 7.All of the engineers in the ship are dead.From we are shown probably they got infected in some kind of accidental lick.Their bodies though were not destroyed like portrayed at the start of the film.They were opened up like something came out of them.If that's the case why some lose their form and some become carriers of "alien" creatures?And while many saw this from the crew no one cared enough to spare a comment?Apart from "let's leave"? 8.Two of the crew members are not on board,yet no one stays in the bridge to monitor things in case of emergency?And the next morning no one watched any footage from last night?Like,did they all this technology but thought to spare some memory space and not keep all that documented data? 9.Elisabeth comes in contact with the virus through her mate but instead of getting sick,she got pregnant with a weird calamari-alien egg machine creature? 10.She then removes the alien from within her and she appears in front of her employer and many other crew members,covered in blood and with a huge scar on her belly and no one notices?Or no one cared? 11.In the vessel room there are some wall paintings.In one of them there is a creature portrayed that looks like an alien.That means that this creature is no stranger to the engineers,in fact they seem to treat it with great respect or fear considering the drawings.Yet at the end of the film the last engineer gets swallowed by a form of alien completely surprised....And what comes out is beautiful and creepy,but not like the alien we all know. 12.The engineer comes to from a 2 thousand year cryosleep and he wonders nothing,he just gets back on his plan to destroy Earth?And since these beings are so far greater than humans in technology,and since this ship seems to be on an organized base of theirs,how come no one ever sought them out from their race?And we know that there are others from the next film.. 13.The alien that came out from the engineer was kinda small,yet the aliens we see in Covenant that come from humans who are much smaller in size than the engineers,as a result of the same virus,are shown to be so much bigger. 14.The two lost scientists in the foreign structure meet up with a weird creature.They do not fear it,no second thoughts,no scientific spirit of examination.They treat it like a stray dog and end up dead from it.At least one of them.The other suffered some strange mutation who made him mad but super strong,because....reasons? 15.What actually happened at the beginning?Did that engineer sacrifice himself in order for life on Earth to blossom or was that something else entirely?
I guess,if you look hard enough you will find more stuff like that,that do not add up or make any sense in a matter of continuity or leave things without explanation.I wish they had thought these things through.I liked the movie a lot but all these would satisfy my curiosity greatly.Sadly that is not the case.I was waiting for the gaps to be filled in the next film,but not only they do not fix the errors we see here,it is actually even worse,in fact beyond compare.
So we are given that,at least some pieces of it.Though nothing is unflawed.We have a nice intro and some agony pilling up slowly at the first and then it bursts out!The sad thing that many thing don't really make sense and some characters do things-to put it blunt- completely stupid,things you won't expect not only a scientist to do,but any reasonable human being.And yet there they stand,important scientists,chosen for a classified mission of great importance to explore the possible creators of mankind...And there are some in-continuities.
And let me elaborate... 1.When they first enter the structure they see David using the foreign spacecraft technology and no one questions what had just happened. 2.When they enter the contaminated hall no one got infected.The vessels started acting up,creating something like humidity at first and then something like a gray jell that was moving,like there were worms inside.Then,in the ship Prometheus when David opened up a vessel and came in contact with the liquid inside,he was holding a drop on his finger and it did not get affected at all while he was holding it.Why? 3.In the vessel room we see worms crawling on the ground.No explanation about them and I guess later they turned into alien-like snakes? 4.When they examined the decapitated head that noticed new cells and after some time it exploded.Was he infected before he died?If so,shouldn't't't a creature come out of him?Instead he was destroyed like the engineer at the start of the film.Yet in alien covenant we are shown that contact with the virus equals some strange thing exploding out of your body. 5.While the engineer at the beginning got infected and destroyed almost immediately,when Hollowway got infected it took him many hours to show symptoms.And isn't a scientist inclined to step up when he notices something's wrong with his body?In a foreign planet? With a great possibility of infection considering what they had seen already? 6.A snake-like alien entered one of the crew members body but nothing came out of him,just the same creature that entered a few hours ago....??? 7.All of the engineers in the ship are dead.From we are shown probably they got infected in some kind of accidental lick.Their bodies though were not destroyed like portrayed at the start of the film.They were opened up like something came out of them.If that's the case why some lose their form and some become carriers of "alien" creatures?And while many saw this from the crew no one cared enough to spare a comment?Apart from "let's leave"? 8.Two of the crew members are not on board,yet no one stays in the bridge to monitor things in case of emergency?And the next morning no one watched any footage from last night?Like,did they all this technology but thought to spare some memory space and not keep all that documented data? 9.Elisabeth comes in contact with the virus through her mate but instead of getting sick,she got pregnant with a weird calamari-alien egg machine creature? 10.She then removes the alien from within her and she appears in front of her employer and many other crew members,covered in blood and with a huge scar on her belly and no one notices?Or no one cared? 11.In the vessel room there are some wall paintings.In one of them there is a creature portrayed that looks like an alien.That means that this creature is no stranger to the engineers,in fact they seem to treat it with great respect or fear considering the drawings.Yet at the end of the film the last engineer gets swallowed by a form of alien completely surprised....And what comes out is beautiful and creepy,but not like the alien we all know. 12.The engineer comes to from a 2 thousand year cryosleep and he wonders nothing,he just gets back on his plan to destroy Earth?And since these beings are so far greater than humans in technology,and since this ship seems to be on an organized base of theirs,how come no one ever sought them out from their race?And we know that there are others from the next film.. 13.The alien that came out from the engineer was kinda small,yet the aliens we see in Covenant that come from humans who are much smaller in size than the engineers,as a result of the same virus,are shown to be so much bigger. 14.The two lost scientists in the foreign structure meet up with a weird creature.They do not fear it,no second thoughts,no scientific spirit of examination.They treat it like a stray dog and end up dead from it.At least one of them.The other suffered some strange mutation who made him mad but super strong,because....reasons? 15.What actually happened at the beginning?Did that engineer sacrifice himself in order for life on Earth to blossom or was that something else entirely?
I guess,if you look hard enough you will find more stuff like that,that do not add up or make any sense in a matter of continuity or leave things without explanation.I wish they had thought these things through.I liked the movie a lot but all these would satisfy my curiosity greatly.Sadly that is not the case.I was waiting for the gaps to be filled in the next film,but not only they do not fix the errors we see here,it is actually even worse,in fact beyond compare.