Back on track after the Prometheus disaster

Rating: 8/10 (11 May 2017)

Following my bitter disappointment with the terrible screenplay and caricatured characters in Prometheus (the concept of which I thought was great, execution terrible), Alien Covenant delivered. Although suffering from the mandatory "I'll just walk off into another area by myself despite the obvious stupidity of it" which seems to occur in every horror movie, the screenplay was good, acting was good and the characters had a bit more depth.
Visually spectacular, with a more intellectual story-line than I was expecting (reference Ozymandias and Wagner's Das Rheingold), I left the cinema feeling that my $100 was well spent (took the family). I had gone in with low expectations but a secret hope that Ridley Scott would address the obvious flaws present in Prometheus, and he did. I will definitely be buying this on Blu-ray and giving it a run at home.