Alien: Covenant

Movie review by Jeffrey Anderson, Common Sense Media
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Common Sense says

age 16+

Blood, gore, moody visuals, and a strong female character.

R 2017 123 minutes

Parents say

age 15+

Based on 21 reviews

Kids say

age 15+

Based on 48 reviews

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age 18+

Did not work for me.

I watched it once and once only. Probably never will again. The level of gore was too much and quite frankly, everybody dies...even the heroes. The sex scene is nothing a child should not see. The violent ending of it is! It just left me feeling. "What is the point?!" Just let the Aliens win and end the story.
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age 17+

WE WANT RIPLEY BACK!!!

This movie is complete garbage. I have been a fan of the alien series for a while. I wish I hadn’t watched this it’s just disappointing. It doesn’t make sense, the characters are bad, bad language, super unnecessarily violent, it literally had a sex scene which is super inappropriate. It’s a huge let down for the finale movie of the franchise. It’s a miss.

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much sex
Too much swearing
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