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Alien Covenant picks up after Prometheus. The crew learns through some type of transmission of a remote planet. Oram believes this planet might be the response they are looking for. Daniels, his second in command, differs and worries for the worst. They land on our planet simply to learn that they aren’t alone and the planet has quite a past that is horrendous.

Ridley Scott’s Alien raised the bar for science fiction films and horror. Scott’s Alien and Cameron’s followup, Aliens are arguably two of the top horror and science fiction films ever made. They are intelligent, frightening, and loaded with suspense. They tell great stories and feature the character Ripley, who is one of the very badass female characters. If you are interested in seeing Alien Covenant, I'd trust you already viewed these films and understand why they're considered game-changers to the genre. If not, do yourself a favor before even considering viewing Alien Covenant and view both.

This can be probably among the very difficult reviews that I've needed to write in quite some time because Alien Covenant has moments of greatness but it is such a disappointment in general. What makes reviewing the movie even more difficult is trying to not give away any of the narrative element what just happens and because I know fans of the franchise desire to view the picture for themselves. Let’s just state that Alien Covenant is the follow up to Prometheus like it doesn’t want to acknowledge that Prometheus existed even though the character of David and another character is part of this story, but the story at times acts.

As you may have anticipated from my lackluster plot outline above, alien Covenant starts in a very universal way. Early on in the movie, something occurs which in return results in Oram becoming the captain of the Covenant. Most onboard the assignment, don’t like Oram and on disobey his order that is direct. The first 20 minutes is fundamentally about how they shouldn’t land but of course, they do and as you imagined terrible things begin to happen once they do.

Particles, which enter into the bodies of two of the crew members are extracted by the eggs. In case you have viewed, the first films, you realize what happens next. The way in which that the alien comes out of among the crew members is amazingly brutal with tons of blood. The scene is a short ton of pleasure since it really is loaded with gore and suspense. Fans of Alien is likely to be overjoyed and that I have to admit that this scene is one of the finest of the whole picture. It makes it new and takes a classic scene. Is it more extreme, but it operates.

From that point, the crew discovers there are because they think he can help them tons of xenomorphs on earth and go with Walter. Walter and David spent tons of time talking which leads to the discovery the planet contains a virus and hints that more bad things will happen. During Walter’ and David s screentime, you can find lots of moments which might be intriguing since they assemble off the groundwork constructed in Prometheus. The issue is the storyline doesn’t dig along with the script glances over plenty of things which were in Prometheus. I recognize that the movie wasn’t as big of a hit as Fox expected for but you can’t just forget it occurred especially when you are relying on that picture to construct this one.

The 2nd act of Alien Covenant is without question the strongest. It really is where excitement and every one of the suspense lies. I found myself invested and entertained with all the film after the very first 20 minutes until the 3rd act. It's the closing act where things go terribly wrong. While the story is rather predictable throughout, it gets to some point where there no surprise left. It feels like the writers just gave up and try and reinvent the initial Alien by making Waterston’s Daniels station her inner Ridley. It doesn’t let’s be honest and have exactly the same level of awesomeness as the original, Waterston is no Sigourney Weaver.