![]() The beats and notes are shuffled around a bit - and mixed with some other tired science-fiction banalities - but not in any way that disguises their familiarity. So surprise.) Scott’s screenwriters - Jack Paglen ( Transcendence), Michael Green ( Logan, Green Lantern), John Logan ( Spectre, Skyfall), and Dante Harper - have tossed out most of the pseudoreligious, pseudophilosophical gunk of Prometheus to return to the sci-fi horror nuts-and-bolts that drove the best installments of this series ( Alien and Aliens), but they have no idea what to do except to borrow a bunch of beats and notes from those first two movies. (One big “twist”? The first incubated alien bursts not out of a guy’s chest but out of his back. There is nothing in the least bit startling or shocking or even mildly unexpected here. There are so many ways in which Alien: Covenant is a crushing disappointment - even more so than 2012’s Prometheus, to which this is a sequel - but the biggest one is how dull it is. ![]()
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