FAILIEN

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2019)

This film epitomizes the conceptual gymnastics that go into keeping a money making film franchise active. Alien:Covenant is at once a sequel, a prequel, a remake, a reboot and a ripoff. It steals from the original Alien, its sequel Aliens while shoehorning in a follow-up to Prometheus at the same time. It is basically a plotless misadventure on an another planet with a 10 minute remake of Alien tacked on the end. Plus the final "twist" is telegraphed for any person who ever saw a movie by the scene where Fassbender gives himself a haircut for no reason.