Star Dreck

Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2017)

The plot reminded me of one of the least fortunate episodes of the original Star Trek, 1960s version, except that the characters are much more bland and uninteresting than Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.
Space: the final frontier! These are the voyages of the spaceship "Covenant". Star date such and such. Following an intergalactic explosion that rocked the ship and caused minor damage, we received a signal from a nearby planet and decided (for no particularly good reason) to explore it. We sent down a party down armed with futuristic guns. Of course the planet is earth like and no space suits are needed. Needless to say, a monster attacks! Luckily, a mysterious caped man emerges from the ruins and leads us to safety. Unfortunately, some of our men have been infected and when we go back to the Ship, we must again battle the monster, which now comes in two varieties: classic Alien (cylinder shape head, snapping jaws, long tail) and Alien light (a skinny tall guy in a white bodysuit). The latter is somewhat harmless and he reaches up with his long skinny arms, kind of like E.T.
So in a nutshell there's the movie, except a subplot dealing with a father and son having long, tedious conversations and playing a flute (same actor, which makes it confusing to follow and the British accent doesn't help) and some bizarre nonsense about humans being descendants of monsters, wait a minute, is this Scientology? No, just a bad movie. Oh and needless to say, there's the classic low budget bad movie last twist to lay the foundation for Alien Covenant II but I will not be seeing that one.