Worth a long wait...probably not.

Rating: 5/10 (11 January 2018)

Elegantly imagined by director Ridley Scott, ALIEN fans are picky and this one can be nitpicked to death. I don't want to spoil too much of your experience of this journey into deep space. In this second chapter of the ALIEN prequel trilogy, over 2,000 souls are in a lengthy cryosleep along with a large payload of embryos destined to inhabit Origae-6, but the colony ship Covenant is involved in a freak accident killing several people on board. The ship will be diverted to a closer planet that has misty green mountains and clear blue bodies of water. This new destination sounds like heaven...but will become just the opposite.
Enough to keep your eyes on the screen; but you'll wonder if Scott did us a favor or not. Sleek and suspenseful, but is it enough to sustain that desire for mystery, monsters and death in outer space.
A versatile cast that features: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Amy Seimetz, Billy Crudup, Carmen Ejogo, Danny McBride and Alexander England.