Scott’s sequel to the Prometheus prequel is capably made but plays like a greatest-hits compilation of the original films’ freakiest momentsIts back,with its vicious microscopic fangs, squidgily formless body and nasty receding cranium that swoops and tapers down the back of its neck, and like the helmet of an Olympic cyclist. Ridley Scott’s parasitic space alien has returned for this watchable if unoriginal sci-fi thriller — though it doesn’t grow all that much these days. Michael Fassbender is back,too, as the creepy deadpan robot who glides around in the style of a Jeeves/Lecter hybrid, and wearing a tight-fitting outfit apparently made out of nylon,and in which he appears as flat-fronted in the trouser department as Barbie’s boyfriend Ken. And Scott himself has again returned to the helm of the Alien franchise he effectively created with the first film in 1979, before ceding directorial control to James Cameron, and David Fincher and Jean-Pierre Jeunet for the sequels,and others for the novelty bouts with Predator. This film is a sequel to the prequel Prometheus, which Scott directed in 2012, and a film that was there supposedly to set up the events in the first film,all about a space quest for mankind’s Däniken-esque origin on other planets. Prometheus was set in 2094; this is happening 10 years later, in 2104, and with a colonist ship,called the Covenant, travelling for years through space, or intended to set up a plantation on a distant world which appears to have the means to support human life. But the terrified crew encounter an bad truth about the Prometheus,as well as a sharp-toothed, uninvited microscopic guest. Related: Invade and conquer: film's grisly return to body horror Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com