SilentDawn’s review published on Letterboxd:
Was a 66, now an 87
"The entire experience wears a mask over itself, faking sympathy to hide its true soul: the inner depths of the android David. Even grand gestures of sacrifice, as seen in the visually-arresting and bombastic finale, are minuscule in the face of humanity’s ineptness and oversight. Alien: Covenant displays a saddening, heartless evolution — from creator to the created to the creator — attuned to David’s objective. The monstrous becomes beautiful, the barren blossoms into fertility, the living falls into death’s embrace. To say the film is angry would be robbing it of its apathy and the destination of parodic apocalypse. Ridley Scott isn’t overjoyed to see the collapse of humanity’s meager struggles, but like David, his head cocks a little too much on either side when a head decapitates or a facehugger leaps towards the mouth of a faith-based captain."
On ALIEN: COVENANT and Ridley's goodbye to the human race: www.talkfilmsociety.com/articles/ridley-scott-says-goodbye-to-the-human-race-in-alien-covenant