Alien: Covenant (2017)
The most interesting aspect of this is the dynamic between Michael Fassbender’s David and Walter, and it does have some genuinely intense moments entailing well-executed set-pieces. Other than that, it’s just as middling as
Prometheus.
The crew of characters are not like anybody in the original film; they’re all interchangeable fodder that I couldn’t give a **** about. I didn’t like that they flipped the script with David,
. Those characters were two of the best things about the first prequel, and we can tell by how it ended that the next instalment was supposed to continue their adventures as they explore the Engineers’ home world, and their mythology that would gradually lead into the
Alien mythos. But obviously, after the mixed reception to
Prometheus, Fox persuaded Ridley Scott to change direction and give us a proper
Alien film instead.
I’m not buying the Xenomorph’s origin story either (let’s see how they explain the Alien queen down the line), and we didn’t need one anyway. The point of us not knowing what they are and where they come from was one of the great things about these iconic cinematic monsters, and now that mystery has been stripped away.
I haven’t seen an
Alien film I’ve liked since the severely underrated
Alien 3, and Scott is morphing into the new Lucas.
**1/2 out of *****