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Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant

Common Sense Media Age 16

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Not a message movie, as such, but raises questions around why humans would have a need to populate a new planet (why couldn't they take care of their old one?) and why David would spend so much time and energy experimenting on the alien.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Lots of blood and gore. A man burns to death; his charred body is shown. Aliens burst from characters' chests and backs. Face-hugger aliens. Character is beheaded; severed head shown floating in water. Characters are sick, vomiting, spewing blood. Character's face burned by alien acid. Shooting, explosions. Thousands of dead, blackened bodies. Fighting, kicking, stabbing with nail.
Sex
A couple has sex in shower in a somewhat graphic scene; they're interrupted. One naked breast shown. A woman removes her gear to reveal a tank top and starts to wash herself.
Language
Multiple uses of "f--k," plus "s--t," "t-ts," "son of a bitch," "ass," "damn," "take a leak," "Jesus" as an exclamation.
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
Several characters drink whisky while toasting to a fallen comrade. Cigar smoking. Mention of drinking a "cold beer."
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