Review of Alien: Covenant (2017) by Zerosubstance — 05 Aug 2018
Scott trusted Lindelof, and we got "Prometheus." With its perpendicular threads of conspicuous and grandiose pondering and shallow characters behaving idiotically, it took the simple and effective themes of capitalist cynicism and body horror that had made "Alien" and its immediate sequel so memorable, and shoehorned in "Tree of Life"-style reflections on existence and creation. How anybody could miss the jarring thematic discord mystifies me: first between the themes of the original films and these prequels; and second, between the "big questions" eluded to in the films and the bumbling incompetence of both the characters in individual scenes and in the story as a whole. The mysteries of the original films are answered in the dumbest way, and new, more pretentious questions are posed.
Lindelof left Scott with all these loose ends to tie up, and Scott wanted to do something with space-Jesus or whatever, and nobody wanted that. So we got this dumb piece of ****.
The movie gets one point for looking nice.
This review of Alien: Covenant (2017) was written by Zerosubstance on 05 Aug 2018.
Alien: Covenant has generally received positive reviews.
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