You'll enjoy it if you're a fan of the franchise

Rating: 7/10 (13 May 2017)

If you're a fan of the Alien franchise you'll enjoy Covenant:
I'd been excited to see this film for a while. Ridley Scott directing another Alien movie is something that will generally appeal to the masses but is it as grand and awe inspiring as the original? Probably not, but then again you're talking about two movies that are separated by almost four decades.
I'm going to be straight forward, the film is structured more or less the same as the first Alien film. Crew gets random radio signal, Goes and investigates, Brings Alien back with them, all hell breaks loose, characters get killed off one by one. I read something on rotten tomatoes someone posted about how it being as close to a remake of the original as it gets. I have to say, I felt this emotion while watching covenant. It follows the same classic formula to a tee almost.
All the actors play their roles pretty good but it's Michael Fassbender that's the true star of this film. He is absolutely terrific as always, playing the role of not one, but two characters this time and is a frequent scene stealer in this movie. We see new "types" of aliens that we haven't seen before and it was good to see Scott putting in the effort to give us some new material we haven't seen before. This is a bit of a gory film as you'd expect. The classic chestbursters make a return and bust out of their victims more violently than ever. If there's one thing I do want to commend this movie for, it's how Scott linked Prometheus and this film together and showed us what happened to Elizabeth Shaw, it was a believable and fitting plot point that I think worked very well.
The ending I won't spoil but it does leave the way open for another film and I only hope ol' Ridley has one more Alien film in him =) It's not as terrifying as the original by a long way, and there are a lot of snobs that will say this movie is just throwing nostalgia into the face of fans, but it is a good sci/fi horror flick in its own right.
It gets off to a bit of a slow start, but this isn't always a bad thing. I do get the impression Alien Covenant will be forgotten about pretty quickly, and it's not hard to see why but it's still worth checking out if you're a fan of the series. 7/10.
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