I can't completely say that I'm on board with the new entries in the Alien canon. I think I would prefer to keep them in a separate category. But that's just me, personally.The colony ship Covenant is bound for Origae-6 to start new lives. During their hyper-sleep, they are watched over by Walter (Michael Fassbinder), a synthetic. An unexpected stellar flare disrupts the ship, causing the death of the captain (James Franco) and leaving his unsure second (Billy Crudup) in charge. While making repairs, a crewman (Danny McBride) picks up a faint radio transmission from a previously undiscovered but seemingly habitable planet nearby. The captain decides to check it out, over the objections of his second (Katherine Waterson). There they find the downed ship Prometheus and David (Michael Fassbinder), the original synthetic, and things start to go horribly wrong for the crew.
I'm not sure it was intended to be, but this movie was hilarious. It's unfortunately also very predictable, which added to the hilarity but detracted from the suspense. Nothing here should come as a surprise to anyone familiar with any of the other movies, so it really comes down to execution. Imma still buy it, let's get real, but it doesn't reach the heights of the original quadrilogy.
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