Official
Australian release date: 11/5/17. Viewed: 11/5/17.
Director:
Ridley Scott
Actors:
Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride
Genre: Sci-Fi
/ Horror
Rating:
MA
‘Alien: Covenant’ is number 6 or 8 in the
franchise, depending if you count the ‘Alien Vs Predator’ films, or not. It’s a
sequel to ‘Prometheus’, but a prequel to the original four ‘Alien’ films.
Confusing? It doesn’t matter too much, but Fassbender as the cyborg, Walter, links
this film to ‘Prometheus’, where he was David. As such, he plays a large role in
the plot, which is similar to all that has gone before – in the 22nd
century, the crew is awoken from their “hyper-sleep” early by a mini-disaster
and decide to stop on a nearby plant. What could possibly go wrong?
I’m not really sure what Ridley Scott
was going for here (only his third film in the franchise) – a mix of ‘Alien’
and ‘Aliens’, since it involves a bit of action on a planet, but also the final
scenes trapped on a ship. Unfortunately, it’s not done as well as either of
those films. It takes over 40min for anything to happen, but because there’s 15
characters, we don’t get to learn much about them – just that Oram (Crudup) is
the captain, Daniels (Waterson) his second-in-command and Tennessee (McBride)
is the comic relief, that doesn’t get any jokes – and that it’s unlikely more
than 20% of them will survive.
The film could’ve done more to explore
the “Creators” that were set-up in ‘Prometheus’, but it’s only alluded to a
little, with a slight twist being revealed. Both “twists” aren’t that shocking,
and while there’s some good gore, there’s no truly scary or tense moments. I almost
wish they went a little less serious with it. I thought the finished about
three times before it did end, and left me asking if it was necessary?
Overall: Can’t give it too low a score,
because we still get to see Aliens killing humans, but not great either.
Gav's Rating: 3 stars.
No comments:
Post a Comment