Alien: Covenant (2017)
Rated R
Starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demian Bichir, Carmen Ejogo,
Directed by Ridley Scott
The Story:
It's been over a decade since the Prometheus mission failed miserably. Now, as the colony ship Covenant is heading towards its destination, a strange SOS lures it to a habitable planet. Ah, but what the crew doesn't realize is that the android David (Fassbender) has been up to all sorts of shenanigans in the meantime.
So basically Covenant goes all in with what Prometheus only teased audiences with: the Aliens.
If you're going to be the prequel for one of the greatest science fiction movie of all time, you have to eventually show us the little face-huggers.
Prometheus hinted at it, but mostly beat around the bushes about what story they were trying to tell.
Now, we're putting it straight into the title, and finding out that androids are directly responsible for the misery inflicted by these evil critters.
Fassbender gets to play dual roles as androids who are both good and evil, as one by one, the crew of the Covenant fall prey to David's dreams of godhood.
Still, it's enjoyable as the series comes ever closer to going full circle, and Scott apparently has plans for a few more of these.
Much like the Terminator series, anything after the first 2 has never lived up to the originals, but at least they're trying to create an overall narrative and salvage what they can go forward.
Final Grade: C+
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