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This is a poorly conceived trainwreck. How this movie is rated R is a big question because there is nothing that would be restricted to anyone over 6 years old. Low budget? Yes, very low. So bad, it's good? No, not at all. Everything about this movie is terrible. If you can't go another day without seeing another Carradine movie, then go ahead. You can't make a low budget "future" movie. Well, not this low. Ticker signs and mini TVs with terrible graphics doesn't cut it. Sometimes he has that mechanical arm and other times not. Long stretches of nothing before any action. We do have afternoon soap operas for this. Everyone's energy level is very low. A 110 year old with diabetes in an assisted living home could destroy everyone in this movie. It's just boring and terrible.

Even if you want to complete your TCM collection, there is no reason to add this. It's pure trash. It's poorly conceived, executed, written, casted, acted, directed, edited, and produced. All the characters should have been killed in the first three minutes, even Leatherface. Every character is a halfwit and annoying as hell, even Leatherface. Only the animal sounds in the woods are well executed. So they took elements from the first three TCM movies and threw them into a terrible satire with some illuminati nonsense. Not interesting, funny, gory, shocking, terrifying, or disturbing. Furthermore, no, Renee and Matthew don't redeem this pile of excrement. They are over-the-top annoying. There is only one good scene where they engage in a remote-control battle, and that's about 8 seconds. Don't waste your time. It's trash!

Covenant provides a good continuation of Prometheus. You can see more connections being made from Prometheus to the first Alien. A lot of reviewers are nitpicking details that they don't get or they forget that it's a Hollywood movie. I recommend reviewing Prometheus again or watching a short video summary of it before seeing this. Remember that this planet was the planet David and Shaw were headed for. Yes, the crew make many bad decisions, but you can see from the very beginning that they really had no experience nor qualifications - maybe that's why they were chosen. But I actually enjoyed the characters' personalities - they actually have some. There's nothing worse than character-less characters. It's interesting to see how David has continued his downward spiral - remember the first Alien, too? The scenery and effects are breathtaking. Go in with an open- mind, don't be too uptight, and enjoy. R. Scott says he has more ideas leading up to the first Alien movie.