Director: Ridley Scott
Date: 29 June 2017
jamesintexas rating: **
I think an Alien film will always get me in the theater door because of my unqualified love for the first two films and even my nostalgia for the darkness of the third film. I was a Prometheus apologist, and now, I'm turning on the franchise. Despite an interesting prologue conversation between David (Michael Fassbender) and Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) about the nature of humanity, the film swerves into expected territory, with a damaged colony ship full of couples needing to make a quick decision about continuing their on their mission or stopping at this perfectly normal hospitable planet which is really close by. What could go wrong, eh? The exploration of the unfamiliar place leads to the sniffing of germs that lead to infection that lead to alien infestation, naturally, and then the film goes really off the rails. Characters make very nonsensical decisions that lead to greater chaos and bloodshed, and despite a Fassbender tour-de-force moment that is one to savor, the film just seems to be comfortable in its complacency. Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, and Billy Crudup cannot save this film, which just does not seem to work very well. I think Alien: Covenant misfires, ultimately.
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