Review Alien Covenant Movie News. Alien Covenant. 61. Read Paul Shireys review HEREPLOT After a disastrous deep space accident, the crew of a ship carrying thousands of colonists, lands on a mysterious, habitable planet. Soon they discover this hidden paradise contains a deadly secret related to the disappearance of the Prometheus a decade earlier. REVIEW The ALIEN saga has truly run the gamut of quality. There have been amazing installments ALIEN, ALIENS, absolutely horrible ones ALIEN RESURRECTION, the Av. P series and then the ones that come somewhere in the middle, including ALIEN 3, and PROMETHEUS on the high end. Add to that middle segment ALIEN COVENANT, the long awaited sequel to PROMETHEUS, that director Ridley Scott promised would start to tie in to the first ALIEN, meaning wed finally learn how the xenomorphs came to exist. Given that its been thirty one years since the last truly amazing ALIEN movie, hopes were high for COVENANT, but this is far more in line with PROMETHEUS than anything else, with the presence of the xenomorphs really only tacked on to the last act. Otherwise, its similar to its predecessor, in both good ways and bad. Buy Big Hero 6 Sequel The Movie On Dvd ' title='Buy Big Hero 6 Sequel The Movie On Dvd ' />Read the latest news and updates on your favorite movies, tv shows stars. Moviefone is your source for entertainment, movie, DVD, online streaming TV news. Green Lantern may have a future on the big screen, but likely not with the same director. Despite the bigbudget superhero movies disappointing box office. Given that its been thirtyone years since the last truly amazing ALIEN movie, hopes were high for COVENANT, but this is far more inline with PROMETHEUS than. Read all the hottest movie news. 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Like PROMETHEUS, ALIEN COVENANT is very concerned with the theme of faith versus science, and similar to the last film, theres a character played by Billy Crudup trying to reconcile their faith with the mysteries of the universe, like Noomi Rapaces Shaw was. However, this has been back burnered a bit this time around, with our heroine, Katherine Waterstons Daniels, more of a pragmatic, Ripley sort. Of everyone, its Michael Fassbender, in a dual role, who gets the most screen time, with his David returning from the last film in a major way, while he also plays the un accented, less ambiguous Walter, a more traditional robot in the Bishop model who serves on Waterstons crew. Its really this lack of a traditional protagonist that hurts COVENANT, with the potentially interesting Walter getting too little screen time to really make an impression, and its David whos clearly captured Scotts imagination. The much hyped Ripley esque heroine proves to be a let down. Waterston is good, but the part is thinly written and not formidable enough. You really need a good, engaging hero to get behind, a lesson many monster movies havent learned. Ripley and Arnold Schwarzeneggers Dutch in PREDATOR are the gold standard, but Waterstons not given enough to do and lacks the presense of someone like Sigourney Weaver although thats a tall order to fill. The rest of the crew, despite being peppered with notable character actors like Demin Bichir, Carmen Ejogo and Crudup, are mostly anonymous cannon fodder with only Danny Mc. Bride really making an impression is a mostly straight laced part. No one is done much help by the script by John Logan and Dante Harper, which is full of lame brained decisions by the crew and easy to predict twists. Scotts also thrown in some goofy scenes that would have been better left on the cutting room floor, like a climatic, all out BOURNE IDENTITY style martial arts fight between two characters I wont spoil who but at least its not between someone and the xenomorph its silly but not that silly. Whats especially strange about ALIEN COVENANT is how the xenomorphs themselves seem like an afterthought like theyre something Scott had to throw in for commercial reasons but didnt have much actual use for. You never really even get a great look at them, making one nostalgic for the first three films were they were played by people in suits. Scooby-Doo! Wrestlemania Mystery Cartoon Theatre. At least then they felt like living, breathing creatures and more of a threat. Here, theyre just another CGI critter. While underwhelming, ALIEN COVENANT does have some redeeming elements. For one, Scotts given it a jaunty pace, running a lean two hours and having very little fat on it. Its also an exceedingly pretty film to look at with Dariusz Wolskis cinematography making this a must for the biggest screen you can find. Jed Kurzels score is also really good in how it re uses some cues from Jerry Goldsmiths classic ALIEN score. As let down as I was by the film and it was my most anticipated of the year after BLADE RUNNER 2. Its not a great ALIEN movie or even a really good one, but its not a disaster either. For me, this is a cut below ALIEN 3 and PROMETHEUS, but above the really bad ones. If Scott really does go through with the sequels, there are enough threads left hanging that could lead to a really good installment.