Making all of the same mistakes as Alien 3, Alien: Covenant down shifts from high-minded sci-fi to base horror. The story follows a colony ship that diverts off course to investigate a distress call and ends up discovering the remains of the lost Prometheus mission; including a deadly genetically engineered alien. Unfortunately all the ties to Prometheus are cut, Elisabeth Shaw, the Engineers, the quest to find the origins of creation. There are a couple of attempts at a faith vs. science theme, but it doesn’t really go anywhere. Instead, the film devolves into a rote slasher with one-dimensional characters and gratuitous gore. A tonal and thematic shift from the previous film, Alien: Covenant has no greater ambition than to deliver a few shock scares (which it does).
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Making all of the same mistakes as Alien 3, Alien: Covenant down shifts from high-minded sci-fi to base horror. The story follows a colony ship that diverts off course to investigate a distress call and ends up discovering the remains of the lost Prometheus mission; including a deadly genetically engineered alien. Unfortunately all the ties to Prometheus are cut, Elisabeth Shaw, the Engineers, the quest to find the origins of creation. There are a couple of attempts at a faith vs. science theme, but it doesn’t really go anywhere. Instead, the film devolves into a rote slasher with one-dimensional characters and gratuitous gore. A tonal and thematic shift from the previous film, Alien: Covenant has no greater ambition than to deliver a few shock scares (which it does).