![]() ![]() Despite being promoted as a back to basics gore-fest, Alien: Covenant is still very much a sequel to Prometheus: It favors images and sensations over plot coherence or character development. There's no squeezebox in Alien: Covenant, but director Ridley Scott - who directed the 1979 original but only returned to the series with Prometheus - plays the same beautiful and beguiling song. It was a movie that teased explainer-y backstory information - The Engineers! The origin of the Xenomorph! The Weyland-Yutani corporation! - and then delivered visceral body-horror, philosophical musings on the origin of the life itself, and Idris Elba playing a squeezebox. This shouldn't surprise anyone who saw 2012's Prometheus, which inspired finger-wagging take-downs, heated arguments on social media, and snarky videos that poked away at plot holes. Despite their spiffy space-suits and veneer of Silicon Valley optimism, the ostensibly "smart" characters in Alien: Covenant do countless "dumb" things - and that's what makes the movie essential. "There's so much here that doesn't make sense," says Katherine Waterston's character Daniels at one point in Alien: Covenant, the latest entry in the long-running sci-fi series about adorable facehuggers searching for friends in deep space. ![]()
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