![]() Without spoiling any particular scenes, I want to first praise all of the acting throughout Alien: Covenant. But…it had something to it, which I’ll do my best to explain. So, did Alien: Covenant live up to its grand expectations? Promotion for the film included trailers filled with tense music, plenty of screams and the classic claustrophobia of narrow spaceship corridors that we’ve come to expect from the franchise: Scott’s latest foray into the Alien world has also been hyped up by marketers as being as enjoyable as Scott’s The Martian (2015), which saw a charming Matt Damon steal the hearts of earthlings everywhere, enough that it made it onto our “ Top 12 Films of 2015” list. Despite being a Prometheus sequel, the Marketing for Alien: Covenant seemed to want to distance itself from the Prometheus branding and announce itself as more firmly rooted in its Alien heritage. ![]() ![]() Alien: Covenant has been heralded as the movie which would sprinkle sweet extraterrestrial sugar over the sour taste left in our collective mouths after 2012’s Prometheus, even though director Ridley Scott has always been keen to expand the world he created and not shy away from the criticisms that the Alien prequel garnered upon its release.
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