Alien: Covenant Review - 6 Ups & 4 Downs

3. The Main Characters Are (Mostly) Likeable

Though the "lesser" Covenant crew members are disappointingly one-note, the central characters are actually well-developed, interesting and likeable for the most part, which is more than can be said for most of the Prometheus' crew.

Daniels (Katherine Waterston) may not be Ripley 2.0 in any way, but she's a resourceful heroine wearing a far more relatable chip on her shoulder than Shaw's overly obvious infertility subplot in Prometheus.

Then there's Tennessee, the chirpy pilot which sees Danny McBride giving one of the film's best performances (seriously), and Christopher Oram (Billy Crudup), who seems destined to be a one-dimensional Jesus freak, but is actually a far more interesting character than he initially seems.

The rub here is that because the main cast members are easy to like or at least understand and sympathise with, when they or others close to them die, it actually means something and doesn't feel quite as disposable as when the likes of Holloway, Millburn and Fifield were unceremoniously wiped out in Prometheus.