to those complaining I've released spoilers, it's out in a lot of countries today and plenty saw it on advanced screenings yesterday. you don't have to watch this, if it offends you, censor yourself. if you're disappointed with the movie and disagree with me, it's an opinion, we don't have to see eye to eye. I was very clear in my non spoiler review, I liked it, but it has major issues which I talk about. the beauty of cinema is its subjective

@TheRubberStudiosASMR

7 жыл бұрын

So true. It's like they don't even care. Too busy getting killed off in stupid circumstances. Orum looking into the eggs after seeing what David was capable of was just idiotic

@dan65536

7 жыл бұрын

probably because they're too busy trying to survive, to be consumed by cultural and scientific curiosity ... Lol

@marciocattini12

7 жыл бұрын

Mr H Reviews the movie was awesome I was so wrong about David thought​

@marciocattini12

7 жыл бұрын

The only thing that pissed me off is that Walter can regenerate himself to an extent, Daniels should have realised that it was David and not Walter when he was attending to his wounds.

@Therock007dmx

7 жыл бұрын

Mr H Reviews first Mr.H you have your video labeled Convenant Spoilers, so if people chose to watch it then that's their own fault! Secondly and more importantly it really saddens me to no end that hear that David created the aliens. It's almost like Ridley is saying F U to everyone who've waited for this movie to come out. Why retcon the established history of the franchise, what's the purpose of that ? Lastly I really enjoy your post and even if I disagree with you sometimes.

David did not create the xenomorph but recreated a pre existing form of the "hybrid" he mentioned. The traditional xenomorphwe know is able to procreate without the black pathogen as the facehugger mutates the human cells to form the alien. We know the engineers know about the alien from the mural but even that one was different from what we have seen. We have only seen the hybrids and davids comment imply their is a pure xenomorph that maybe the engineers might haven trying to create. It would be wise to not trust David on what he say as he believes himself a new god. he didn't create anything new but a failed project that he insists is the perfect organism despite being surround by a dead planet due to another organism. he simply state his is the best as he believes he made it and cannot accept the engineers are better than him. And last point, the xenomorph we see is not the same as the one in the original it grows to fast and form differently as a chest burster and i think ridley scott is to smart to throw away the original alien and replace it in one of his best series.

@bdymarek

7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I don't think that's what Ridley had in mind. After watching the movie I think it strongly implies that David created the final stage of the Xenomorphs that we know and love. He might perfect it further in the future movie so they will look more like in the original Alien. I dislike that idea a lot but I'm afraid it's what we got :/ But I hope I'm wrong and you're right.

I am pissed about Shaw's ending and the lack of info on the engineers. It's really pissed me off!

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Lesser Son unfortunately blame everyone who hated Prometheus

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Lesser Son which is another reason they didn't have her Prologue scenes in the film it would have left too many annoyed that we the don't get the explanation for her death fully, so them removing them Is softening the blow

@commissaryarrick9670

7 жыл бұрын

Lesser Son yeah I really liked Shaw I was hoping she would be the hero or at least survive and continue her pursuit of the engineers

@purvey1983

7 жыл бұрын

www.alien-covenant.com/news/ridley-scott-says-prometheus-was-mistake

@bagsikdangal

7 жыл бұрын

Mr H Reviews Restored in DVD Edition of Alien Covenant😂 I also like David as the creator of the Xenomorphs👍😎

So pissed Shaw is dead wow.. Really wanted her to live on. :(

What I cant wrap my head around is the gaping plot hole this movie created when you look back at the original Alien movie. (I re-watched it a day after watching Covenant) So, remember when the Nostromo's crew went to investigate the signal in the original movie? When Dallas, Kane and Lambert found the corpse of the Engineer, they said he's been dead a long time - long enough for him to fossilize as if he was growing out of the chair. On taking a closer look - they say he died because something "burst out of his chest". This scene takes place immediately before they stumble on the cache of Alien eggs that were sitting directly under the ship's bridge. So if David engineered / created the xenomorphs - how can an ancient Engineer die from a chest burster? Sure, maybe it wasn't a xenomorph chestburster like we saw in Prometheus, but it feels heavily implied in the original movie. Soooo what's going on here? time travel? Or maybe David stopped by LV-426, made a queen lay hundreds of eggs under the Bridge of an Engineer ship that conveniently already had a fossilized Engineer that coincidentally died by chestburster?

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Gogo it's actually an easy retcon, they never dated the pilot they just said it looks that way. We already know the suits look like that so it's easy to say it's recent

@TheMimeGogo

7 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the Buried Ancient Temple from AVP containing the frozen Alien Queen doesn't count? :/

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Gogo it was out of continuity as of Prometheus

@thechugdude

7 жыл бұрын

MonkeyZorr Yeah, it's totally implying AVP is not canon though. Which I'm super cool with. I don't even think the Predators are considered canon in the Prometheus universe. I hope they never go in that direction because it would just be fan service as opposed to making an actual good movie.

@TheMimeGogo

7 жыл бұрын

Hi guys. Yeah, I have no qualms with the AVP movies being out of canon. Ridley Scott has been vocal about his dislike for the most of, if not all the sequels / spin offs of his original Alien film. The only issue I have with Covenant (and don't get me wrong, I loved it), is that the David Xenomorph creation idea was quite the twist, but as I sat and watched on, the more it sunk in that the Aliens weren't the mysterious ancient race we perceived them to be, as they were portrayed in Ridley's own original film... It made me that feel we have to construct some logical narrative in our heads as to how the Nostromo's discovery of the eggs, the "fossilized" Engineer on LV - 426, how these things would fall into place properly. I felt bad that the shock of the twist was robbed by the nagging thought of this contradiction. But that's just me, it's my problem lol.

Well, there you go. The final xeno was created and perfected (coughed up) by David (There goes the mystery/ terrifying aspects of "Alien"). None of the engineer questions from Prometheus answered. Killed off the main protagonist in that one to make it convenient to switch story direction. Just more bait & switch. A crew even dumber than the one in Prometheus (is that even possible?!). - The Alien franchise is cooked. Sad.

"Lets give Shaw the Newt Ending"

Shaw is dead?....right....there goes the ONE reason I wanted to watch the film. I wanted the ending scene to be David waking Shaw up AFTER everything had transpired and she be none the wiser.

@JazukaiX

7 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting idea.

@dmar3651

7 жыл бұрын

Too bad Ridley Scott wasn't smart enough to think of it.

@AdenaKaiba

7 жыл бұрын

I love your idea! Also Shaw was the only reason for me to watch the film so... Let's say I'm going to save that money.

@car2004

7 жыл бұрын

D Mar Same here. I saw Prometheus 4 times at IMAX. I loved it. I loved Shaw. I waited 5 years to see her get her revenge on the Engineers. 5 years and she's dead and not even in the movie?! What a waste.

@armedraptor5114

7 жыл бұрын

D Mar RS did think of it but Prometheus split the crowd and execs wanted for this story to be ditched in the name of xenomorphs...

It was disappointing in how they handled the Shaw character, she deserved a better ending . Saw the movie last night and agree with Christian T comments, although I found the CGI ok.

I started to think that the Engineer's civilization that David destroyed was actually more like a colonies in which why they so happy and welcome the Juggernaut, and also how "crude" they are compared to the Engineers we saw in Prometheus

I was disapointed we didn't get Prometheus answers and just got more questions, but overall I still enjoyed the movie. Liked the characters, pacing, and some of the answers we got. Still very good Sci-Fi. Hope it does well so we can get some real answers in the next one.

Sadly, just sounds like so much of this movie is not touched on or explained. Good vids though Mr H 👍🏼

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Holdenmagroin75 thanks man

@dustgreylynx

7 жыл бұрын

Holdenmagroin75 , if they make some kind of LOST of it, they should better make series at least

@Brandon-rb4sm

6 жыл бұрын

Not enough was touched on the Engineers which was a massive disappointment because they were easily the best part of Prometheus second being David and Shaw

Here's the thing, Ridley Scott had four whole years in between Prometheus & Covenant to figure everything out. Is he maybe just making it up as he goes? Possibly, but I prefer to think he does have a plan with an end goal he's working towards. There's three more films after Covenant. Hopefully the prequel quadrilogy & Alien 77 will link up in a way that feels right.

Can't see the movie until Sunday and the closest Imax is 70 miles away, this video is on pause while I type this.

So, I just watched Covenant, I was so worried that I'd built it up so much that it would be a great disappointment, which was exactly what I did before I went to see the Grand Canyon, and I have to say, both were bigger and better than imagined. However, like so many of you, I too am absolutely gutted about Shaw. Especially as we get this prologue: The Crossing, where it is clear that David is developing feelings for her. I need an explanation. In my head I can make a kind of sense of it: they spent a while getting to know one another on the juggernaut, she didn't look great, and then she goes into cryosleep. Now, like David says, once again he is left alone, only this time he has what he could consider, A special friend, and she's had to leave him alone in this strange, ominous spacecraft for god knows how long. So I can imagine that David, misses their interactions immensely, whilst in the meantime he is learning all about the Engineers history. Now I refuse to believe that David was lying about his feelings for Shaw, so I think that maybe she died at some point and his grief was enough to send him hurtling into Frankenstein territory. I imagine he has tried all sorts of experiments to bring her back, and becoming more and more unstable over these ten years. I pray that the two Alan Dean Foster books that come out, at least give us some answers. I have to say Covenant was brilliant. I've never felt two hours pass so fast, I couldn't believe it was the end; a sign of a very good movie. Has anything been said about the sequel? And is this going to be Awakening, the prequel to Covenant, or has he seen sense yet? Although I would love to know what went on with David and Shaw in all this time between Prometheus and Covenant. The scene where David confronts the adult Neomorph is so moving, and when Oram, shoots it, David's reaction was so visceral, it made me jump, it was one of such pain, heartache, and fury. Fassbender, is such a great actor. I also loved the end where he coughs up the two eggs and puts them in with the human eggs. Now free to play and experiment with 2k colonists and over 1k of embryos or eggs. His very own lab. Genius. There is just one thing I have a huge issue with, having watched all the Ridley Scott interviews, he has now confirmed that it is David that is responsible for creating all the Neomorphs, and Xenomorphs, but if this is the case, then why was there that big mural in Prometheus, unless time travel has now become possible in the future? And I don't get why so many people are bigging up Danny McBride's, character. Actually, it wasn't him so much, as it was his character. I know his wife who he loves dearly is down on the planet, without communication, or any idea of what is going on other than some medical emergency, but are you telling me, that a pilot that is responsible for transporting all those colonist etc, are worth putting in danger just for the sake of a few people. Now, if I was in the same situation, I would feel exactly the same and do everything I could to get down to that planet, but it just wouldn't happen, MUTHUR forbids it, several times, but even then, Tennessee gets the other guy to partner him and override the security features! One final thing, why does a ship so vast, only have one drop ship? You'd think there would be at least two or three. That really bugged me. I know I sound like I'm slating this film but I'm not, there was much more that I loved about it, such as David's interaction with the creatures, and with Walter. I thought the cinematography and special effects were breathtaking, when that drop ship lands on the lake and you see the way the stream of water moves in response to it, is so beautiful, so too is the scene near the end when Daniels is outside the airlock trying to trap the beast with the terraforming machinery, all those tiny microbes flying through the air was beautiful. And I have to say it, I will never listen to Paolo Nutini’s, Let Me Down Easy, in the same way ever again. Finally, I can't waist for whatever path Ridley, decides to take us on. The man is a genius. Sorry for the essay guys, this is my only outlet. My Wife, said she will divorce me if I mention anything Alien related for the next 48hrs 🤐!

The ending sounds *VERY* intriguing. David makes a fantastic character !

I liked this movie. I especially like how it tied into the way that the robots in the future (Ash and Bishop) are so incredibly impressed by the xenomorphs. It makes perfect sense now that we know David created them to be the "perfect organism."

Loving the review. Keep up the amazing work

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+NWOWCW4Life1 thanks man

So disappointing. Protomorph was extremely forced. Nothing was new. The Engineer story? Fuck that they all died. We don't even see Shaw die, yet she was the most passionate character. The neomorph didn't do shit, he literally had nothing new except for being able to stand on its feet and look cool, they should've added new features and keep him til the end. And apparently there's like 10 couples and were not even sure who is with who. And the CGI...really took me out, especially the chestburster, they should've at least made a practical Neomorph when he was standing there, it would've been beautiful. Quite frankly, it was less inventive and intense than Prometheus, the deaths were so cheap and predictable, and that David plot twist, I was just waiting for it. There are good things in the movie, but the flaws I listed above were just....painful.

hey guys, when I saw the movie there was a reference of the painting "Isle of the dead" when they show the garden where shaw is, suposedly, buried and the place itself was the painting. If someone else saw it, could you please tell me, thanks.

I just saw it. I did what any smart person would do and avoided all KZread videos in the last week. But now that I've seen it it didn't really live up to the story I had built up in my head over these last few months. I think I enjoyed the speculating more than the film itself. It was great but still felt rushed. I hope there are a lot of deleted scenes. There is hardly any real development for the characters besides Daniels and even her story felt rushed. David was brilliant but I did hope there would be more answered. It left me with more questions than answers. I hope you continue your alien videos mr h because really watching your videos has added immensely to the enjoyment that I had leading up to the film. I've thought about covenant for every day after seeing that trailer at Christmas. I think I'll have to see it again to fully appreciate it. I had to go piss when they were inspecting the juggernaut

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+TheRubberStudiosASMR hey man, thank you for writing your experience! It seems to be a real mix bag and I think that's valid. As I said in my review, I have issues with it, but over all, I enjoyed it! Some things are undeniably off about it, but others, are, acceptable. More videos to come dude :) I have no plans to stop the channel! I will further branch out though so hope you stick around for other franchises too :(

I think the Muriel of a xeno type creature in Prometheus is kind of a engineer warning label saying " hey we've tested this black goo and u get something nasty like in said picture, please don't touch."

I'm a bit confused.. Help me out with this if you can MR H. When you say David created the species are you saying that the species in this movie is different than the species of the original Alien. If not how can it be the same Species given the age of the derelict ship. If the Alien David created wasn't birthed via chest burst and came out almost fully grown then then they are not the same species to put it simply. Please tell me this is a possibility

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+RektScrub it's likely a proto version, he hasn't finished perfecting the alien yet

@rektscrub8800

7 жыл бұрын

Ok so its not the same species....we good then..

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+RektScrub well, it is and isn't. It's likely the beginning evolutionary steps to it. Ridley has already confirmed he made the alien, so kind of said it Is. But taking into account the movie it's likely the evolutionary steps towards it

@rektscrub8800

7 жыл бұрын

These " evolutionary steps " or differences would be enough to categorize them as separate species. At least that's how it would work for animals on earth.... I think :P

Excellent review as always!

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Lalo Saks thank you!

also at the flute scene that ruined things for me: the song played it the theme song from prometheus. how would the character know that song? could they not have found some other song? only deadpool breaks the 4th wall and gets away with it.

Thanks for the review of David: Covenant

Great review dude. Saw it last night, and totally agree with you. One thing that's bothering me is, the bit at the very end when David talks to "mother". How did the the ship have his name and serial number? I believe he's been in contact with the company over the years? The planet strangely appears after 10 years of searching? Surely concealed by the company, who, lets face it, fund and control everything in the Alien universe from the very start!

I really enjoyed this one. It was just fun seeing the xenomorph (or some variation of it) running around and killing people. I also really liked the neo morph coming out of a guys back. The effects just looked so good and the gore was satisfying. I also like the characters and story overall despite being a little predictable and formulaic.

Yup, F this movie, dude. Shaw being killed by David was a total slap in the face. Why have her struggle to much in the last film & come out victorious, just to have her die a meaningless death in this one??? Reminds of me how heartless the producers were to kill off Newt in the opening credits of Alien 3. Ugh. Okay, FUCK this movie -- terrible, discount CGI by some sweatshop laptop kids in the Philippines I'm sure. I don't need to see it now. I ❤ Blade Runner & Legend, but Ridley Scott sucks & needs to retire. Aside from X-Men & Alien films, Fassbender is box office POISON anyway.

thanks for the, as usual, great info.... dank je wel kerel👍👍

Great review. Do the Neo's have acid for blood too?

I got an Alien Covenant Ad before the video started

@lukecage9836

7 жыл бұрын

Fabian Velasquez me too lol

In the final scene, David helps Daniels and Tennessee to kill a Xenomorph. But David cherishes his creation. He would not let that Xenomorph get killed and he has no need to keep both humans alive. In that final scene, David pretends to be Walter only for fooling the movie-goers, for the cinematic effect. At this point, David knows that he is Michael Fassbender and that he is doing a show. In addition, the idea that synthetics can have emotions/self-awareness/self-esteem is not based on knowledge. It is a fantasy only for the show’s sake (just like Westworld). If Mr. Scott wants, Xenomorphs can have wings, too. And Iron man suits can be available as well. When one sees clearly a strange balance between different characters’ abilities and stupidity that was put into place just for the show's continuation, one can not follow the story anymore. One is reminded of the fact that it is only a show. This movie is silly.

As it turned out, I enjoyed following your films and insights as much, if not more, than the final film. All in all an interesting experience.

If you watch when Tennessee looking down at the planet (when there is a Storm, and he is working out what is happening and trying to communicate with the team below) on the right before it cuts to Tennessee face, you can see a ship hovering past, what is it ?

Thanks for the review! I've been following your channel recently in the lead up to Covenant and have found it both informative and entertaining. I quickly wanted to point one thing out. "Fingering" actually is a legitimate musical term for the hand positions used in string and wind instruments. I was in band and orchestra for many years, and when learning new pieces the band director or instructors would ask the musicians to "just practice the fingering" or say things like "let's just go through the fingering". I haven't seen the film yet, but I feel like maybe Ridley didn't mean for it to be a joke. Anyway that's all, sorry if I"m pointing something out you already new, and thanks again for the review! Can't wait to see the film.

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Chris Semmelbeck I know it's a legitimate term, however the filmmakers are not stupid, they are well aware it's also an Innuendo and how it would be taken which is why it's so off putting to hear. It just didn't need to be used, another terminology would have substituted I think

Enjoyed the film for the most part. Bummed about Shaw. Also, "fingerings" is an actual term heavily used when playing notes on woodwind instruments. So it wasn't a joke, it was a serious scene with a perfectly legitimate dialogue

Once again, a great job in detailing things. I believe that time of chest bursting depends on the nature of its safety. If you recall, there is a difference between Kane's time and the other two's in Covenant. The latters were result of potential danger and the Black Goo merely accelerate the process. Do you want Walter to return in a sequel?

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+G Koh I really enjoyed Walter, thought he was a great addition. I'm unsure if he could appear in a sequel, whether his story is done or not. Difficult to say!

I want to know what he did to shaw. One of the scenes david says to daniels "I'm going to do to you what I did to her" or something like that. also how did he get the alien eggs? did he use shaw to produce them ? and is that his plan for daniels as well? what do you think?

My theory is that the black goo is actually just Xenomorph DNA being used by the Engineers as weapons. That's why it leads to all these Xeno knockoffs when it infects people so I think the movie shows that David didn't create the Xenomorph, he just learned how to reverse engineer the black goo back to its original form. Otherwise that whole mural in Prometheus wouldn't make any sense. And if anything I think it just makes the Xeno cooler. It's still an ancient being that existed way before this and its so deadly even its DNA is a weapon and was used as such by another race.

Great vid!!

Great review.

always gotta see whats up with the Mr H work ☺

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Lucendah Burns lol thank you lucendah!

@jonmurphy4889

7 жыл бұрын

Mr H Reviews awesome review I just want to say, not to you, of course Mr H but to so many that doubted me way back when I said that David was the creator of the Protomorph/Xenomorph and that Shaw was definitely that body, his first experiment pretty much, so many of my friends disagreed with me and were so shocked when we finally saw the movie and when I told them about it I was only able to see the movie early with two friends as a guest to a press screening but they were out right shocked that I was right all this time, this movie had its plot holes​, continuity problems I really hope that there is an extended version on the Blu-ray release hopefully, because there has to be one out there, it was definitely edited down I feel to a great extent, you know me and I'm a super die-hard Alien fan, yes the movie had some issues but I believe that the franchise is back in the right hands, the father of the franchise Sir Ridley Scott, I'm happy to see it go in the direction that it is going this movie really brought me back to when I was 4 years old seeing the first Alien, and Aliens back to back at home when we rented them, the horror, suspense, thriller, action elements that sucked me in at a very young age and made me the Super Fan I am today, that gave me the love I have for these movies and this Universe, unfortunately I hate that the movie is already getting a lot of hate, negative reviews, comments, etc because of the split premieres and different screening times that it had, I feel that people are just listening to the reviews by other people and they haven't even seen the movie yet, they're not even giving it a chance for themselves to see it and make their own opinion, I've noticed a big trend on Nick's Channel, mostly well, probably younger people questioning how does this movie tie-in to AVP and the events of that movie LOL, how stupid it is that David created the first Xenomorph, etc etc etc I can't help but laugh as I suppose most people don't understand that Ridley Scott absolutely hates those movies. They mean absolutely nothing to him and Alien is his baby, this is his story and he's going to tell it the way he wants to tell it, I still definitely think that David will somehow incorporate either his artificial DNA or maybe even engineered DNA from the Engineers and they're biomechanical suits to make the perfect life form, to perfect his work and make the classic biomechanical Xenomorph that we all know, I was a little upset about the pacing of this movie. I did feel that it was too fast and then it left a lot of stuff out that could've​ been answered/addressed​ easily and at times of course I thought to myself Why some of the characters not question this or that when it was so blatantly obvious like with Oram and David, David's haircut, etc but I digress I loved the movie when it gets its solid release in the US I'm going to see it probably twice. It was everything that I expected it to be with a few minor issues, I say 8/10 and in my opinion the best Alien movie since Aliens... so my new 3rd favorite in the Series 😎👍☠

With the new Marvel series that came out, do you think Scott’s Alien prequels will be RETCON’d or continued under Disney/20th Century Films newer helm?

So maybe I missed something, but what happened to the second neomorph? They didn't kill one while they were small, and later it shows one squatting in the necropolis and another climbing the wall. Was that supposed to be the same neomorph shown in two different places seconds apart, or was the second one simply forgotten? They only showed 1 of the two die.

The Xenomorphs were exquisite. Like Ridley's direction. Prologue was interesting I found on KZread. Great analysis and comment.

ive notice a deacon draw poster on the top right corner on a plan from David chamber

Not seen it yet but I've seen the scene with the two soldiers attacked by a facehugger; it gets ripped off (burning one solder), but I heard later on that he dies by a chestburster?

I usually start at 10/10 for a movie review and just subtract a point whenever there is something I dont like: * I'll do the fingering (Such dialogue has no place in a dark and serious alien movie) 9/10 * Breaching quarantine when u can see a hostile lifeform inside, (and then slipping on the blood like a teenager) not pro 8/10 * Shaw offscrean death, no satisfying explanation (slap in the face) 7/10 * No satisfying explanation for the prometheus cliffhanger (slap in the face) 6/10 * Friday the 13th cliche shower scene (sex under music when all your friends just died?) 5/10 * Illogical behaviour of characters (You dont follow an android ANYWHERE after your wife and friends just got killed by his creations and he admitted it) 4/10 * Illogical behaviour (You dont split up after being attacked by hostile aliens) 3/10 * David is the creator of the xenomorph? (Nah not buying that) 2/10 Theres probably more but I cant be arsed :D

@baconmaster334

7 жыл бұрын

syntaxed2 the fingering thing is what its actually called in music

i feel the finger thing was put there for you to interpret pointing out your own indecency which david judges us for.

That shot of David at 5:14, made Fassbender looks like Lance Henriksen.

Personally I reject this idea that the fans are to blame for the change of direction or apparent mistakes made with Covenant, that the "whiners" and "bitchers" are to blame for this movie being bad (or at the very least not living up to the hype) because we didn't "get" Prometheus. First of all, no one put a gun to Ridley Scott's head and told him he MUST appeal to the fanboys, even if it means compromising his "vision" for the sake of making the fans happy. In fact I personally find it incredibly odd that a director of Scott's caliber would be so concerned about what fanboys think in the first place. Yes, I understand the studio needs to make money or there is no movie, but I have to question this market research they allegedly did. Sounds to me like they simply listened to the loudest voices on the internet, those ones I keep hearing about who were complaining simply because there were no xenomorphs or gore, and ignored everyone else who mostly took issue with the crew's bizarre and almost nonsensical/stupid behavior, among other things that were simply absurd (personally I thought the scene where Shaw birthed the trilobite was a little over-the-top, and probably came off to most people as being kind of funny instead of horrifying like it was originally intended, at least that's how I felt about it anyway). I went into Prometheus genuinely wanting to like it, not as an Alien fanboy. I was aware there were no xenomorphs from a review I'd read beforehand, which was disappointing but I still wanted to give it a chance. Though admittedly it is kinda odd that Scott would try to hammer into our heads that Prometheus isn't an Alien film, has nothing to do with Alien and is a completely different story etc., when the first and only trailer I saw for Prometheus was cut exactly like the original trailers for Alien, complete with the chilling alien wail/scream in between images flashing on screen of people screaming or being burned by acid. Seemed like a bit of a disconnect there in my opinion, or a blatant attempt to mislead people into thinking this had more to do with "Alien" than it was meant to. As you can imagine I didn't like it, for all the same reasons that have been driven into the ground at this point... I went online and looked into it more, trying to figure out what the hell went wrong, and then it started to make sense. The script went through some revisions and they had multiple people re-writing it because Fox freaked out and didn't want any mention of eggs or xenomorphs in the film, apparently because the AVP movies weren't well-liked and they apparently thought the same thing Scott claimed, that the Alien was pretty much done, "cooked", it wasn't scary or interesting and people didn't want it anymore (as opposed to those movies just being shit). I think the movie mostly suffered from that, and sub-par writing due to too many cooks in the kitchen (also, if I'm not mistaken, Damon Lindelof of Lost was involved in the final draft, which is also very telling and probably one of the main reasons people walked out of the theater with more questions than answers). The end result was a movie that had promise, but ultimately failed to deliver, and in a lot of places just didn't make much sense. I hated Prometheus when it came out because I genuinely didn't think it was a good movie. It looked good, the cinematography was beautiful, I liked the effects, but it was kind of a mess otherwise. Had no problem with the Engineers or the story exploring the origins of humanity, I just think it could have been better, and the way the crew behaved really took me out of it. I was actually curious to see how Shaw's story might end and see more of the Engineers (maybe some explanation of what the creature is on the painted mural, the weird biomechanoid with the beak), but Fox and Scott apparently didn't want to take that chance. It really is a shame, and I don't think that's necessarily OUR fault. Prometheus had a negative reception because it was a highly flawed film, not because people were too stupid to "get" the plot or because they were simple-minded and just wanted to see the Alien killing shit. Yeah, SOME people were definitely of that mind, but I would call them a vocal minority if anything. Fox kinda did that before with the AVP movies, it seems. Now clearly they weren't going to be very "deep" storywise, but it would have been pretty fun and entertaining just to see the famous comic book mash-up on the big screen. It failed because it went in a weird direction, being set on Earth in the present day instead of taking place in space and throwing the Colonial Marines into the mix (which the fans absolutely love), but it seems like Fox mostly just heard people bitching about the PG-13 rating and lack of blood, gore, and violence in general, and so we get a sequel that continues to take place in the modern day, on Earth, in Anytown, USA, which makes the whole thing feel much more like a B-movie than this collision of two huge sci-fi franchises...which was what people hated the most about the first one...and thought they would make things better by simply turning the violence up to 11 and throwing in more cute references to the other movies. Didn't really work out well that time, either. I won't get to see Covenant yet until this Friday, but it sounds like they probably made the same mistakes with Covenant that they made with Prometheus, and it's just going to leave people walking out of the theater asking MORE questions, and going on yet again about how stupid everyone in the film was and how nothing they did made any fucking sense, etc. That ended up being way longer than I planned on, I'm sorry.

MR H. I have not heard anyone ask this question which is absolutely baffling me. Does the movie explain what became of the 'scorpion' docking ship that David and the juggernaut dock with? Is the Scorpion still just floating out there, elsewhere away from the citadel, patiently waiting for the next juggernaut ship to summon it to provide a docking platform? Or as I suspect, it's fate is not discussed or revealed, leaving another huge question mark?

As an Alien franchise fan I saw the movie on Friday and unfortunately I thought it was a mess, and that frustrated me the most, the dumb characters were the biggest problem for me, but great review sir I love your insight and thoughts of the movie.

I'm tired of modern lazy writers spewing out scripts with whole plot points that make no sense. In the original ALIEN movie, the crew wore spacesuits and Ripley would not let her fellow crew members on board because an unknown alien creature was attached to the face of Kane. In ALIEN Covenant, the crew could have used their ROVs or even sent the android, Walter, out to take atmospheric readings and see if there were any hazards to human life. I know they had Dr. Elizabeth Shaw's message, but they still should have followed some kind of scientific guidelines. They are part of a colonizing ship and would primarily be made up of a host of different types of scientists. I wish the writers of Prometheus and now ALIEN Covenant would not write for the audience like we are all stupid, drooling, idiotic morons who have never seen the first film. Think about it. The first film was a massive success and is a classic. We wouldn't have these newer movies if ALIEN had bombed and was written to the lowest common denominator of the movie-going audience. Why do I feel ripped off? Ridley Scott has made some of the best movies to have ever graced theater screens, but he isn't holding his script writers to a high enough standard. I despised AVP and AVP Requiem, but Prometheus and Alien Covenant are being made by the master film maker who started it all with ALIEN. Why does he not see the audience potentially groaning at the crew separating several times on an alien planet after horrible things have already happened to their fellow crew members? The whole story has moments that made me slap my palm to my forehead and groan in disbelief. This shit is derivative and LAME! Sorry Sir Scott, but the movie looks like it cost a lot, but when you can't even get the scale of the Space Jockey seat area right, then you are screwing with Giger's vision and HR Giger's art is what made ALIEN work. You can't fix it now... unless you say there were different sizes of engineers throughout their history of manipulating DNA and life itself. Also, how can David have created the Xenomorph, when there was clearly a mural with a Xenomorph (or something that's visually very close to one) on the wall in the chamber with the giant Engineer's head and vases of the black goo. Funny that the room with the statue of a giant Engineer head also contained an actual Engineer's decapitated head. For such a technologically advanced society you'd think they'd invent doors with sensors. Oh wait! The Engineers actually had better protocols for protecting themselves from biological threats that they wore suits and had doors that slammed shut... yet the humans see a hologram that shows the Engineers ran from something threatening to their lives and the humans still chose to leave their helmets off. lol No logic. I suggest you hire a script editor who won't be afraid of being fired who will put your next script to the logic test. All that said... thank you for ALIEN... not so much for Prometheus and Covenant.

Mr H. do you think the story will end here for Tennessee and Daniels? What direction do you see Alien Awakening going in, or do you think that the fan interest in the series will end here after the reveal that David created the alien species?

@justing4824

7 жыл бұрын

Ok, Alien Awakening is a movie between Prometheus and covenant, it will show the person on what happened to David and Shaw and what lead up to the events of covenant

David:"I'll do the fingering" everyone in the theater laughs.

Great review. With every morsel of information I'm trying to figure out how this plays into the original "Alien". It blows my mind. How does Charlize Theron character frm Prometheus plays into this. David called her "mother". Was she a droid that had sex with Idris? Will she experiment? Is Ripely one of the colonist on board in the end in cryosleep or is it a relative of Ripely? Are any of the colonist in cryosleep "Newts" relatives from "Aliens"? Every morsel of new info trying to piece in to the larger picture. The best part about stories like this is that it gives such dept to the original movie "Alien". Mother means more. The miners mean more. The alien means so much more now. This is the ultimate flattery Sir Ridley Scott can give to himself, H.R. Giger and Xenomorph.

does anyone know what the song is called in the shower scene?

I was thinking after watching the ending that David has somehow made himself able to produce facehuggers (maybe used shaws sexual organs?) like a queen would do, and as shown he acts as though he is the Portomorph/xenomorph queen because the protomorph/xenomorph copied his actions plus the ovomorphs that he has made do not open and attack him

Do we get an idea where David is taking the Covenant ship? Is he heading towards the Covenant crews initial destination or does he go back to Paradise where his lab is?

What was up with those eggs or plant thingies that had like those bug flys

Speaking as a fan of the first 2 films in the franchise(I watch Aliens at least 2ce a year!),I have nooooooooo intention of watching Alien Covenant in the cinemas after the soul crushing disappointment that was Prometheus. Thanks for the spoilers

Please do a video explaining the whole alien series and how they are connected.

What do you think about Neomorph? From spores grow into a backburster, that is so wild of a random mutation. I found that harder to believe, and it is some way deadlier than Xenomorph perhaps?

OK. I just saw this movie last night and have been thinking about it nonstop. (Going to see it again in an hour) Since there was a Bass Relief of the Zeno in Prometheus that means that the alien is ancient and/or the creation of the Engineers. David just found the goo and is learning how to apply it. I can live with that.

Regarding the facehugger embryos, 2 were removed at the beginning of the film after the blast that ship suffered. I think it's presumed David had been told about the colonists and human embryos so already had the facehugger embryos on the planet from his experiments so swallowed them there to take on-board.

After watching this I have no interest in the movie. A lot of rehashing of what's already been done and disappointing new direction.

David in Prometheus 'sometimes to create, one must destroy'. He sure did this in Alien covenant !

Is the blue deacon what the song 'Deacon Blues' was all about?

Mr H got a question: does any Clips from the trailers appear in the movie? or are some only made for trailers or my thought, for the extended directors cut with more footage and given maybe a few answers. You got any Review about trailers and movie?

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Helba Lee a lot of the viral marketing is not in the movie

@helbalee1498

7 жыл бұрын

thanks. Maybe we will get Lucky with an extended Directors Cut. Woohoow

@jonmurphy4889

7 жыл бұрын

Helba Lee I'm hoping that there will be an Extended Cut for the Blu-ray release there has to be I don't know if you have seen the movie yet but there are just cuts and certain continuity issues for some scenes going into the next scene so I definitely think there has to be a full cut that will include everything, but watching both the prologues and every TV spot that has been released I would say is important to helping understand the film and for character development etc

Hey Mr. H, Do you think that there is a balance that Ridley needs to find? That there CAN be horror of the "Alien" sort, whilst equally answering the questions brought up in Prometheus? Also, I don't know about you, but I think that the beast IS cooked. Thoroughly. I think that the sequel would do well to focus more on the Neomorphs, Deacons, and long awaited Ultramorph. What do you think?

It's a genius ending. He swallowed the alien embryos before he left the planet. He's achieved his dream, he now has 7 years of freedom to experiment and continue his research. It's a brilliant film.

what a way to give closure to a bad movie lol by killing it's main character off screen, in turn it gave us David that's shoehorn into being the xenomorph's creator.

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+HX Teng but that's half the issue, everyone hates Prometheus, so they had to bridge the gap between the movies, now if you spend the movie explaining the characters death or too much etc then you've basically not bridged anything and you're continuing with what people hated. It has issues but I liked it

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+MonkeyZorr I love Prometheus, it had a wider negative reception than positive though

@timothydwyer101

7 жыл бұрын

Why the need to bridge anything if he is making a a specific bridge film? Awakening will be set between Prometheus and Covenant no?

@Buddhistsocialist

7 жыл бұрын

HX Teng nah it wasn't bad it was just to intelligent

@bdymarek

7 жыл бұрын

It wasn''t as bad as some people say it was, but it also wasn't as intelligent as others think it is. The writing wasn't that great and some characters lacked in intelligence (guy playing with the alien snake). What I also disliked was the design of the Engineers - it was boring, like a cheap aliens from a '90 TV series and, just big guys painted white. Nothing as interesting as the original design.

I wasn't really enjoying this film until David said the M R James line 'oh whistle my boy and I'll come to you'. It clicked with me then and whenever I watch it gives me that haunting feeling I got as a kid when I heard a ghost story. Not ideal for an alien film I know, but it really works for me. Hopefully they'll finish it because I'm sure that wasn't the engineers planet. It would be crap if it was.

I JUST WATCHED IT I AM HERE AND IM READY FOR SPOILER TALK

Makes me wonder 1) if we're ever going to see a film about The Engineers, and 2) how on earth they're going to reconcile the 'origins' of the alien, given the apparent contradiction of David's work vs what we saw in 'Prometheus' with the mural. (My head's exploding!)

Oh shit this came out today! Dope man can't wait to see this film cheers dude

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+neom no worries dude

I just think that instead of the whole awkward scene where David is teaching Walter how to play the skin flute, they could've used that time to have David just explain what the engineers actually were, what he learned about them, and why he did what he did to Shaw.

. 'SHES DEAD' so blunt, love it. I was crying with laughter. Keep up the awesome work dude. I really enjoyed the film, bar its minor faults. However I think many of the faults have been left this way to leave Ridley Squat the option to retcon at his will. At first I hated the 'fingering' dialogue but the more I think about it, do you think it was to show their 'synthetic' minds? Even with David going further down the rabbit hole and becoming mad and more 'emotional' they are still not human. So It was used as a tool to show the differences between the crew and the synthetics. The crew joked about each others wives etc so would have sniggered at such a comment...but a synthetic wouldn't get it? Either that or Ridley thought it needed some unnecessary humour! Really enjoyed then movie, I hope that there will be an extended edition although I know Ridley isn't mad on director cuts etc. But I think they could treat the hardcore fans with the DVD release and explain a lot more and hopefully give shaw a send off she deserves!

Can you do a video on the time line please.

Maybe I just didn't catch it, but I am pretty sure that the out-of-place fingering joke was not included in the german translation that I saw - so that's a plus! As for the answers about Shaw, Engineers and so on... I don't mind a lot of things being left open because to me, this whole story is about the Androids- those are the central part of what is happening and that's fine. There's a lot of potential for stories with engineers and so forth and the movie neither explores this potential nor does it remove this potential. Stories about an engineer civil war, about other colonies and creatures, are still possible in the alien universe...they are just not what the franchise is focussing on right now and that's fine. I'd be upset if the movie would close doors on opportunities for good sidestories, but so far, this didn't happen. The universe is still very much open to all kinds of additions anyone could think of and once Ridley Scott is done with his movie series, I expect we might possibly see some of these themes explored in the future.

The dialogue exchange between Walter and David felt like an episode of Star Trek

Sadly, I think Ridley's decisions were based on the fact that many Prometheus detractors 'missed' the Xenomorphs. So he essentially erased the importance/relevance of the engineers (and unceremoniously bumped off Shaw ala Hicks and Newt) and gave us what was familiar which is Xenomorphs and the shitty, sketchy Weyland Corporation and their shitty, sketchy androids, all in an attempt to make up for the lack of Xenomorphs in Prometheus. I didn't really like everything either but I do give him the benefit of the doubt because he listened to some fans and tried to improve. Since I never cared about the lack of Xenomorphs seeing as how it was a FU-CKING PREQUEL about their genesis, I had no issue and didn't really need a sequel to just hammer in Xenomorphs. I had faith that these new films could work without Xenomorphs for Xenomorphs sake...

well done Mr H. I'll be seeing it anyway. I don't care for what critics have to say.

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Tobii Guns it's good, has issues but is a good film, I think anyway

HEY GUYS! LET'S MAKE AN ALIEN PREQUEL THAT NOT ONLY OVERUSES THE CLASSIC XENOMORPH, BUT ALSO SYSTEMICALLY RUINS ALL THE MYSTERY AND PURPOSE THE ORIGINAL HAD! *Snorts cocaine* SOUNDS GOOD RIDLEY! BUT CAN WE CUT DOWN ON THE CGI?

@thomasbowling7458

7 жыл бұрын

Darrius Cooper. Ridley: FUKK YOU... WE NEED MORE CGI , LIKE CHRISTOPHER WALKEN NEEDED MORE COWBELL BABY!!!

Great movie and great special effects. The way the creatures are done is fantastic! Really enjoyed it although it won't ever be quite the same as the very first one because uncertainty kept everyone on their toes, nobody knew what was going on. I think the continuation will be done by other people, not Ridley Scott but I was quite happy with the way it ended. I recommend this film to everyone, it's a joy to watch.

I seriously wonder if Noomi Rapace pissed off Ridley Scott in real life for him to just write off her character like that.

Should also mention that some of the trailers scenes do not appear in the movie like the Muthur Trailer none of that is in the movie so here hoping for a Bluray with all them scenes that was cut put back in.

Tennessee was literally the only likeable character

this is the second time we see David cry! he also cries in the "Meet David" video. he does say he understands human emotions but can't feel them. kinda weird

So they took one of the most iconic sci-fi creatures in cinema history and basically turned it into "Hur dur! One of the most dangerous creature's ever encountered in space was created by a rogue robot that was created by man! LOL!" Nevermind the fact that this tidbit contradicts the mural in Prometheus. What a crock of shit. And the David/Walter switch? Who honestly didn't see that coming? All that hype man...what a fucking let down...

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+WarlockX4 that creation part I dislike, for sure, as for the mural it's difficult to say if it contradicts it yet. The black pathogen still leads to Xeno looking life and it's likely they knew that, the film isn't without its problems for sure! Which are all very plain to see, over all I did enjoy it even with a week to mull it over

@TimothyMcGawUK

7 жыл бұрын

We know that David is disappointed by his own creator. He probably doesn't care much about the Engineers either. He's a rogue AI with a God complex at this stage, now that Weyland is no longer around. "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" What I took from Covenant was that David definitely plays a role in the perfection of Xeno, through his experiments, but ultimately he's usurped the development of the Pathogen from the Engineers. Meaning that the pathogen certainly tends towards creating Xeno type species, but it's through David's tinkering that the final 'perfect life form' is achieved. It seems plausible that he viewed it as some high honour for Shaw to be a part of that process, rather than anything malicious, when you consider his cold internal logic and idiosyncratic programming. So I don't think the film was saying that David, with Shaw's body, was where the Xeno came from. I think it was saying that David had taken over something the Engineers already started. He obviously wants humans and engineers gone, so he can rule the universe as the creator of the perfect life form. He didn't care about getting answers from them about why they changed their minds about humans, because he has no respect for humans. He's just taking over their second attempt at creation, and, in his view, perfecting it.

@TheRubberStudiosASMR

7 жыл бұрын

Yes the mural! Still unexplained. Covenant felt so rushed. In interviews Ridley was saying, "this film will answer everything". It didn't answer anything. It still didn't answer where the eggs came from. My dream was to have shaw become a queen. That would have been an amazing reveal.

@cantabrian1009

7 жыл бұрын

+Timothy McGaw spot on!

@natanaelrodriguez3953

7 жыл бұрын

everybody have a different opinion about shaw.

Thank you for saying Shaw was dissected. I've heard people saying she released the first chestburster. That is definitely a dissection.

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Fracassi oh 100% dissection, not sure where anyone got that she had a chest burster from :-/

@TheIslingtongirl

7 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair, it was the general chest area and quickly shown. I kinda got that vibe too. Not a huge leap to think she was a host to some stage of gross lol

So Alien Awakening events will takes place after Alien Covenant or between Prometheus and Alien Covenant?!

idk how to feel. found your channel leading up to the movie and watch pretty much everything you put out. from alien to the predator series and judge dread series. but i understand its a movie it hast to captivate and make us watch but they drag it out so more movies can be made i just wish there was more explanations of the story itself. thanks for your work maybe do a video on adam savage tested channel were he looks at the suit and weapons from the movie just an idean great vid even tho im from the States and haven't seen it yet. but can't not watch your vids 👍and will still love the movie regardless.

Is the scene at 48 seconds in the film? I don't remember seeing that

@suraventri2544

7 жыл бұрын

It was when David introduces himself to the crew in the Temple. He pulls back his hood and turns around.

I couldn't stop laughing when David was teaching Walter how to play the flute and he was like " let me do the fingering " 😂

Why did the juggernaut crash land after David had deployed the black goo? Did shaw do it? Or did the larger engineer mother shop hovering over the temple fire back st the juggernaut, causing it to crash land - suggests that some engineers in the mother ship might have survived and gone back to their homeworld paradise? If not, why the need for the big mother ship to begin with ? It must be there for a surprise else why waste time and money in creating it?

Mr H simple Question does it explain from David etc howwww those eggs were created???

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Nick Mattio unfortunately not, it states they are his successes and his perfecting, so kinda

@nickmattio3397

7 жыл бұрын

Ughhh David did not make the Xeno its shown on those murals in the ampules room with a more pure Xenomorph form I'm Jesus pose I smell a lot of convenient studio script interference here in the name for mainstream net fishing

@MrHReviews

7 жыл бұрын

+Nick Mattio unfortunately Ridley has confirmed he did...... The mural could quite literally just be a Xeno like creature. Nothing was confirmed, but Ridley has said it. Don't want him to be the creator but the evidence is stacked against anything else

Is it just me or is the Alien franchise becoming the "Lost" of the film world in that it seems to throw more questions than answers. I did like the film especially the Neomorph, but it seems so unfair that Shaws story should end like that. I hope they will explain in prequel to this what happened to her. I also found the end disturbing (when Daniels finds out it David before she goes to sleep)