Note: Spoilers ahead.
Alien Covenant attempts correct some of the mistakes from Prometheus. Not sure how well it succeeds. For starters, this is a proper Alien movie, with xenomorphs, spaceships, a crazy android. Everything that made the first one a sci-fi and horror classic.
This one doesn't quite work as well.
It's a good sci-fi flick and has some good moments, but otherwise, it is only ok.
I am not exactly sure why that is.
I talked to my wife and son about this. They pointed out that the alien was not really the enemy. They were only a tool. The real bad guy was the android, David.
Well, I had hoped for more.
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After realizing that, to me, mystery is good for some characters (No, I'm not glad I now know Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Boba Fett or Wolverine's origins) I'm astounded that Hollywood keeps giviing Ridley Scott the greenlight on revealing some strange and awkward origin points for the xenomorphs.
I like David as a villain, mostly because Fassbender is an incredible actor, but I don't need to see how it all lined up to get us first to the Nostromo and then to LV-426.
I don't dislike Prometheus or Covenant, but they don't match up wit the quality of the first 2 films.
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