20 Terrible Movies That Do NOT Deserve Their Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Scores

Score: 65% (Average Score: 6.30/10)

Consensus: Alien: Covenant delivers another satisfying round of close-quarters deep-space terror, even if it doesn't take the saga in any new directions.

Alien: Covenant is a film that has more than earned all the hatred it's received from franchise fans ever since its release, for everything about it is just insulting.

It gives the iconic Xenomorph creature a backstory it never needed, it removes all the potentially interesting elements of its predecessor's story and worst of all, it subjects viewers to what is nothing more than a lame, infuriatingly unscary Aliens (1986) rip-off featuring stupid characters constantly getting themselves killed in the most avoidable ways imaginable. Ridley Scott's direction is uncharacteristically bland too.

Therefore, fans will be shocked to learn that this movie actually got fairly positive reviews at the time of its release. Sometimes, critics are kinder to sequels and reboots since they might have less investment in the IP and are just looking at it as an overall product, but even that wouldn't explain how this got good reviews because, simply put, Covenant is not a good movie. Like, at all.

Yes, it does feature a transcendentally brilliant performance from Michael Fassbender, a couple of interesting ideas and a few good scenes, but is that enough to excuse the film's complete lack of logic or fear? No, not really.

How such a ill-conceived load of nonsense didn't get a splat is anyone's guess.

Deserved Score: 30-50%.