A big improvement from Prometheus!!!

Rating: 7/10 (21 May 2017)

When Prometheus came out nearly 5 years ago, it was met with lukewarm reception yet became the highest grossing Alien movie worldwide. It was Ridley Scott's first movie filmed in 3d, with The Martian, his next movie after the failure of The Counselor, being shot that way; it became his biggest hit of his career. Now comes Alien: Covenant, the middle of a three part trilogy set before the 1979 masterpiece that is a huge improvement over Prometheus in terms of effects and scope and storyline. The soundtrack has some tomes borrowed from Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 1979 classic Alien, and some scenes from this movie borrow heavily from that film that started it all. The casting in this movie is pretty good, and the aliens in the movie never disappoint. I'm glad Scott made the right move to shoot it in plain old 2d since 3d is a dying fad. I recommend seeing this movie twice to get the feel of what it's like in space.