Saturday 27 May 2017

Mini-review: Alien Covenant

Scott returns to the well for another Alien prequel. Building on Prometheus, it teases out a few more reveals which get us yet closer to the events of the first Alien film. In many ways, this is familiar territory for fans - but there's enough new information to make it worth a watch and there's some surprisingly philosophical elements.

 If there is a criticism, it is in the huge and largely anonymous cast.  It's hard to care about their fate when you barely even know their name. Waterston and Fassbinder are excellent.

BTW, there's a nice call back to Bladerunner in the words one of the characters says.


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