How Many Times Can a Film be Done Over and Over?

Rating: 6/10 (29 May 2017)

The devotees of Scott's 1978 and Cameron's 1986 masterpieces craved for adequate return to the beloved franchise following less than stellar further sequels and unnecessary crossovers.
Prometheus promised that and ended up delivering a puzzling yet interesting prequel to the franchise that most found outright outrageous or just plainly disappointing. As much as such criticism, to some extent, might be understandable it is ultimately unfair: Prometheus was dazzling-looking origin story that raised more questions than answers, which left us (me at least) anxiously waiting for expansion/ explanations.
What is more baffling is that Covenant lazily and inexplicably takes the very same premise and motivations - and character stereotypes, added a little Passengers (2016) plot points with Alien and Aliens stylistic choices and delivered a shameless formulaic, predictable, overdone and lazy sequel that could very well not be part of the cannon. Somehow, Scott's usual mastery made me not care one bit about that. I was entertained, interested and marveled at its sheer autopilot storyline. If that was Scott's plan all along, bravo. If the idea was to try and expand the mythology I'm fearful for eventual further installments.