Not Again

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2017)

This franchise has gone on way too long and should have stopped at installment number 3.
What we get here with 'Covenant' is a cheap but elaborate re-hash of many elements of the first two movies. From the soundtrack to at least 7 or 8 key plot points are presented with near identical similarities.
And somebody please explain to me HOW a bunch of summer-camp councilors passes for a crew in charge of the most expensive interstellar space craft in the history of the human race. Complete morons.
So much so that you might think Mr. Scott is playing some kind of joke on us old foggies who were nothing short of enthralled with the original Alien released in 1979.
I was 19 years old in 1979, and I am now 56.
Yes, it's been that long.
Also thrown in is a iconic line from Ridley's other master-creation, Blade Runner (and no, I'm not going to tell you what it is. If you're and old fart like me, you'll spot it immediately).
While no fault can be had with the design and cinematography, the re-run mentality is getting old and worn out.
If you are in your twenties and not that intimately familiar with the franchise that now dates back almost 40 years, you will probably be wildly entertained.
If you're in the same age bracket as myself, you'll find it annoying.
Like Star Wars, the Alien franchise has morphed into absolutely nothing that resembles the original, and leaves us wondering when the curtain is going to drop for the last time.
It's over, Mr. Scott. You'd do far better letting people re-discover your past work rather than trying to reanimate it.
But I am very much looking forward to Blade Runner 2049.
See you then.