Retcon: The Movie

Rating: 4/10 (20 June 2017)

"Covenant" has the incredible atmosphere that Scott is so good at creating, the gore is just as visceral as it always is, Michael Fassbender and his characters are great, but it is far from groundbreaking. At least "Prometheus" had originality. This film completely sacrifices poignancy for cheap scares, and when it does attempt to get deep, it ends up spewing too much convoluted information, and just confuses you with disconnected lore that goes nowhere. Characters are useless. The pacing is too fast and it doesn't let the film build up tension. It shows you everything, and ends up flaunting the Xenomorph like the pop culture icon that it has become. It tries to expand on the loads of information we're given in "Prometheus", while at the same time give us Alien stuff. In the end, it was just Alien stuff, thus making all the information from the last film pointless. It's simply a depressing spectacle of filmmakers trying to please audiences with nostalgia, and nothing more.