I just want to watch people fight aliens in space. The big problem is that, in the end, I apparently just don't care too much about the origin of the xenomorph, and Alien: Covenant is so much - too much - explanation of exactly what it is and when and how and why it came to be.
(Plus, you have to give props to a blockbuster that kills off James Franco after 10 seconds of screen time. This was never meant to be an action franchise, though, and there are some truly grotesque bits of horror at play, moments that rival the scares of the original trilogy - at least, until everything gets a bit too computer generated. (Eat your heart out, Beauty and the Beast.)Īs directed by Alien maestro Ridley Scott, the film's action sequences are often shot in a way that makes it impossible to know what's going on, but you know it's bad.
And that's before Covenant's exclusively gay moment. And dig he does, adding a dark and creepy twist to his nuanced performance of a nearly human character.
Tackling duel roles - Fassbender plays both David and a new synthetic named Walter - he is given some truly wild material to dig into. More than even the titular alien, this is the Michael Fassbender show. You never care that much about any of the characters, because you never learn all that much about them (aside from the fact that they are all married to one another, which you know from a YouTube prologue and because the men shout " My wife!" over and over like a bad Borat sketch). The crewmembers themselves - a bunch of faces you'll recognize from other blockbusters - aren't too important. It's not too big a venture into spoiler territory to say when they arrive on the unknown planet, things go awry. The movie is Passengers ( minus the love/murder story) until it turns into an Alien movie. Coinciding with a catastrophic malfunction aboard the spacecraft, a previously hidden planet suddenly appears on their radar, a seemingly perfect alternative to their objective. The movie then shifts focus to the crew of a ship, the Covenant, on a colonizing mission to the planet ORIGAE-6.
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