Alien: Covenant: reviews

What the critics say average 6.5 from 12

• 9.0 The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy The drama flows gorgeously and, unlike in many other franchises in which entries keep getting longer every time out, this one is served up without an ounce of fat. It provides all the tension and action the mainstream audience could want, along with a good deal more. Read
• 8.0 FotogramasDesirée de Fez This time Ridley Scott's bet is more epidermal than cerebral, more restless than reflexive, more playful with the viewer than intellectually complicit (...)
• 8.0 El MundoLuis Martinez Scott recovers the feverish mechanism of the original saga. It is as an unoriginal as irrenounceable (...) It moves restlessly between excitement and fever (...) Read
• 6.7 IndiewireEric Kohn Just as this series focuses on survival instincts, it seems that Scott has found a way to exercise his own, keeping the ?Alien? series relevant by resurrecting the same old scares. Read
• 6.0 VarietyPeter Debruge As acts of creation go, Scott has made an ?Alien? movie for that segment of the audience that has always rooted for the monster. Read
• 6.0 EmpireIan Freer An upgrade from 'Prometheus', 'Alien Covenant' amps up the thrills but doesn't deliver a memorable crew member or the full-on onslaught of the series at its height. Read
• 6.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw The film is very capably made, with forceful, potent performances from Waterston and Fassbender. That franchise title is, however, looking increasingly wrong. It is a bit familiar. Read
• 6.0 El PeriódicoQuim Casas It is pure viscous terror, blood sprouts, mutant creatures and total panic. Read
• 6.0 CinemaníaYago García We are faced with the more beautician and gothic delivery of the franchise... it is more enjoyable the more crazy and excessive it is shown ..." Read
• 6.0 ABCOti Rodríguez Marchante Visually magnificent film, which completely occupies the five senses of the viewer while in front of it (...) Read
• 5.0 Screen DailyFionnuala Halligan It?s a long, flat, no-frills journey which struggles to engage despite its many bloody shocks. Read
• 5.0 El PaísCarlos Boyero A story that is not even bad, shot with as much effectiveness as absence of soul Read