Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017)

It would have been better to pretend that this was another not-Alien film like Scott did with Prometheus, because it adds as little to the saga as the Predator cross-overs, and is quite easily the weakest one in the series proper. At least the touch of Jean-Pierre Jeunet lent some novel demented twists to Alien: Resurrection. This is just painfully derivative, with a nondescript crew blundering idiotically into peril at every juncture to die in droves. It is somehow undeservingly kept afloat by Michael Fassbender playing a twin role as David, sole survivor of the last film, who has now become a mad-scientist psychopath, and his human-serving counterpart. Sure, the knee-jerk thrills are still there, but what we were supposed to get was the plot moved on further towards discovery of the purpose behind our creation, which the ending of Prometheus meretriciously promised, not just a slasher with high production values.

4/10