From terror to action. From action to science fiction altogether.

Rating: 7/10 (17 May 2017)

Trying to apologize for Prometheus - Which I do not think is all bad - Ridley Scott returns to the command of Alien to consolidate the film's focus change again, It was already terror, then turned action, today is purely science fiction, "Alien: Covenant" Is a film about an artificial artificial intelligence with remnants of megalomania, deification and superiority, I understand the change of focus, I even like it, but the essence is completely lost and the fans' dislike is understandable. If 10 years after the events of Prometheus, a colonizing ship is attracted to the planet LV-223 after receiving a call, upon arriving on the planet, they discover that the sender of the call is not who it says it is. The script is less creative than prometheus, it follows a common structure of the whole franchise, and even touches on legal points such as the colonization of planets, or the concept of love machines, sense of duty, an analogy to creation not always be Something divine, and therefore the creation to be corrupted, and even a search for indenity and concepts of love related to birth and creation, but all these points are played in an extremely vague way, they are only brushstrokes that are quickly exchanged for action scenes . Technically, the film pleases, although it has been promised to be much more "8-passenger" than "Prometheus", stayed on the promise, the production designer is very clean, and even in night scenes, everything is very beautiful, although not Extremely detailed and perfect, the direction of art is competent, using a photo with light tones, few open angles, good visual effects, a great mix and sound editing, and a well-paced rhythm, something that draws much attention in the film It's a soundtrack, full of sound design, it does not contain suspense songs, but it contains a lot of erudite music, and when it plays Wagner is creepy, not only for the music, but for the whole context. In terms of acting the great thing is due to Michael Fassbender, who plays two roles, incredible though it may seem, even though they are two androids, are very different from each other, interpreting Walter, an android with a great sense of duty and no evil Who begins to question the concept of love, and David, an android already with more human traits, and a carrier of malice, confused feelings and megalomania, David tries to create a species to try to feel the love of his creation, Fassbender is very well interpreting The two roles, the same manages to make a robotic performance in one and more human in the other, he takes the beans from his character, and impresses, but unfortunately Fassbender is the only highlight in terms of acting here, Carmen Ejogo even has a load Dramatic but very cool, but can not have grandeur in the action scenes. Finally "Alien: Covenant", it is "8 passenger" only in the argument, because the rest is "Prometheus", the Alien in itself little appear is a problem here, even though even appeared even less in the "8 passenger", at least There he was the focus of the film, not here, we have butchers who give little fear and who are completely background for the story, besides some holes of scripts, and some things that have bothered me, such as the closing of the Film, where at the end is a report explaining what we have just seen and leaving a ganje that everyone has realized, if the film had finished a minute before would be the best closed of the franchise "Alien", but still it is a movie Cool, and is a shrewd complement to this franchise that is so loved and important pop culture.