

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman.Buy Alien: Covenant on Blu-ray at Amazon.It all feels just a bit too familiar and obvious at times. In many ways, Alien: Covenant's greatest strength is that it makes you realize Prometheus is a far superior film than you gave it credit for the first time around, and that's faint praise really. Fans will appreciate its many references to earlier parts of the Alien lore with an uncredited cameo from the likes of Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland, founder and CEO of Weyland Corporation, but few of the characters are sufficiently developed enough for you to care. Defying logic a little too often, it leaps wildly from 'this is so dull' to 'well, that's just ridiculous' and never feels consistent. A decent cast including Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup, and Katherine Waterston, directed by Ridley Scott, and a screenplay by John Logan of Gladiator fame, it should have had everything going for it.

