Alien: Covenant

Covenant returns Alien to its horror roots.

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Somehow, Scott manages to balance it all: meditations on being made in God’s own image, the fan service of “Alien Origins: Xenomorphs,” and feminist agency.

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Five years ago, director Ridley Scott returned to that dark, scream-free corner of the universe he introduced us to in 1979… kinda.

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Alien: Covenant‘s bargain is good enough: come for the Fassbenders, stay for the nihilism and grotesquerie, and emerge with at least a few questions and curiosities on your mind.

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Ridley Scott's philosophical, perverse addition to sci-fi franchise is the best movie in the series after the original one-two punch.

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It’s Fassbender versus Fassbender in the new “Alien” movie, a shivery return to old-school space horror for director Ridley Scott.

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Bloodier than you can believe.

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The fact that you know more or less exactly what’s coming doesn’t diminish the creepiness, or lessen the jolt when the thing you’re dreading arrives.

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Ridley Scott’s latest is a gore fest that draws from the previous film in the franchise.

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The line between creation and destruction, birth and bloody death, is a subtle one in Alien: Covenant, director Ridley Scott’s intriguing next chapter in the long-running sci-fi franchise and a two-fold tour de force for Michael Fassbender.

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Ridley Scott keeps his alien attacks as gross-scary-suspenseful as ever, but none of the dialogue scenes are nearly as compelling.

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Around the midpoint, "Alien: Convenant" takes a turn toward a "Planet of Dr. Moreau" storyline, stealing from H.G. Wells. Mostly, of course, the film steals from earlier "Alien" movies.

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Ridley Scott's official return to the 'Alien' franchise is essentially a 'Prometheus' sequel with Aliens in it.

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Scott’s sequel to the Prometheus prequel is capably made but plays like a greatest-hits compilation of the original films’ freakiest moments.

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If nothing else, Alien: Covenant is the most ambitious Alien film ever made.

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It’s hard to say, at this point, who exactly wants or needs another Alien movie.

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2109. En route to Origae-6 to start a new colony, the crew of USCSS Covenant, tempted by a seemingly rogue transmission, opt for a closer, seemingly equally hospitable planet. Only terraforming officer Daniels (Katherine Waterston) has concerns, fears confirmed when the group meets David (Michael Fassbender), a survivor of the ill-fated Prometheus mission.

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Alien: Covenant goes the mainstream creature-feature route with vigor, even if story elements are overcomplicated and too hellbent on franchise tie-ins.

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Ridley Scott can’t recapture what made the early “Alien” films so unsettling.

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The only saving grace of the film’s mostly recycled horrors is how they deepen Michael Fassbender’s android David.

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Give the people what they want, it seems, as Scott’s new entry Alien: Covenant plays like a greatest hits of your favorite Alien moments.

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Presumably, Scott is giving the audience what it wants, but purists may wonder whether simply re-watching “Alien” would have provided scarier, more genuine jolts.

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