Alien: Covenant: Nothing out of nowhere

Cast : Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir

Rated: 3/10

It seems this horror film outer space was made in Hollywood’s silly season. Someone just thought of making a journey through space, connecting with an alien theme, splashing the horrors on an Earth-like planet and then rampaging through an attempted story, not so happening camera work and a mildly interesting story line to build up a mammoth.

No doubt the film has mammoth intentions of becoming big down the line. What with existential questions from a synthetic created by a doctor in pursuit of origins of mankind, what with created trying to become creator and what with astronauts on a mission to save the remaining colonies deep into the galaxies. There are sci-fi intentions too, what with an animated mother controlling the spaceship, a synthetic working on sleep boxes as astronauts go into cryogenics to save the years and the wrinkles perhaps and outer globe landings where all kind of aliens attack them for all kinds of reasons not known.

On the whole a big-time spatial wannabe with no elements of surprise, not even the one the director tries to build on with conspicuous care. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 14 May, 2017