Review of Alien: Covenant (2017) by J T — 07 Sep 2017

While Mr. Scott, the originator of the series, clearly has a gift for visuals, this film is insultingly bad. Does Scott see himself in some way as akin to the android, David, and his audience as the ship's crew, i.

E. a bunch of disposable rubes? Alien: Covenant cannibalizes the title of an unmade script from an earlier moment in the franchise's history, and that is the real feeling that watching this movie provides a viewer: of Scott gorging on a carcass and making hissing noises at the other - and, really, let's just say it, finer - creative minds who have spent their energies on the Alien franchise.

Insofar as Alien: Covenant works at all, it works as an allegory for the failures of today's big budget sequel-mad Hollywood sausage factory. It is also emblematic of those failures.