Covenant is a ship in 2104 that carries 2,000 colonists and 1,000 embryos. It's mission is to reach a remote planet, Origae-6 with the intention of starting a new population of inhabitants. The ship is manned by a synthetic named Walter (Michael Fassbender) while the crew and the colonists are put to cryosleep. The ship suffered an accident killing several crew members including the captain Jacob Branson (James Franco). The crew is awakened to deal with the situation by fixing the ship. While doing this they intercepted a message coming from a planet later discovered to be habitable by human beings. A contingent went down to investigate and discovered the earlier version of the xenomorph that was cultured by the only survivor of the Prometheus expedition, a synthetic named David who looks exactly like Walter. The investigation proved to be dangerous because of this and escape rendered necessary.
Ridley Scott has mastered this deep-space, close quarter suspense genre that it is almost iconic. To me who is not really fond of this genre, I had a hard time watching this movie because one I don't like scary movies and two I don't sit well with a lot of gore and blood. While this movie seemed to get the nod of a lot of critics I did not like it for its story.. The story does not really say much aside from what happened after the Prometheus expedition and maybe an introduction of what might happen in the following installment. Being a prequel, this movie will just pave the way to the main story that is the Alien series and we will mostly know how this movie will end. So what prequels can do is mention what is precedent to the main story and help us the audience understand the characters more by giving them more dimension.
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