Alien, The Martian and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott revisits familiar territory: science fiction and the vast unknown. Alien: Covenant, the sequel to 2012’s Prometheus, opens in a stark, clinical room. It’s 2104 and a vast spaceship called Covenant is taking crew members, passengers and equipment to establish a new colony on a distant planet. It makes no sense that the advance recce team that descends on this unknown planet should not be walking around with oxygen masks or hazmat suits. At best Alien: Covenant is an unhurried and serviceable bridge hyper-driving to connect to the original, classic, chest-bursting Alien.

Source: Mint May 12, 2017 08:03 UTC