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The giant colonization ship "Covenant" is heading to a distant planet, where it is planned to establish a new settlement. During the flight, the Covenant is damaged by a shock wave from a starburst, and the crew, who came out of suspended animation, decides to land on a planet found nearby, which also seems to be suitable for colonization. However, it is here that the dangerously reflective android David (Michael Fassbender) lives surrounded by evolving xenomorphs.
There are not many directors in Hollywood whose creative path stretches over forty years – for Ridley Scott this is a big part of life, and it is logical to assume that at some point he stopped taking what he was doing too seriously. What is important, this is by no means "senile senility", but some kind of slightly manic creative search – Scott is looking for himself in slightly unexpected styles and genres, which is especially noticeable in his production projects, including the bizarre television "Taboo" and "Brainless", as well as the comedy thriller "Mindhorn", recently released on Netflix.
Prometheus, Scott's prequel to his second feature film, Alien, was already a weird movie. It seems to be fiction, it seems to be xenomorphs, but at the same time, not monsters and their drool are at the forefront, but existential themes of life, death and the edge beyond which artificial intelligence becomes a full-fledged being. At the same time, Prometheus was slightly uneven in rhythm and contained a lot of offensive blunders and assumptions that hardly combined with the "high syllable" of the film as a whole.
"Alien: Covenant" does not try to correct the oddities of its predecessor, but, on the contrary, emphasizes them and proudly adds a healthy handful of fantastic thrash to the mix, which produces one of the most bizarre and unusual projects of the franchise, and of big Hollywood in general. In fact, this is the fruit of love of an absolutely "besh" horror and a humanistic fantasy blockbuster – a kind of "Blade Runner" with severed heads, spilled insides and naked girls in the shower. We don't know about you, but we've been dreaming about such a movie all our lives!
Stylistically, the "Covenant" stands clearly between "Prometheus" and "Alien". From the first, the film has a visual style and a pivotal theme "do androids dream of electric swimmers", which Ridley Scott develops with the help of two Michael Fassbenders at once – one plays our old friend David, the second is his "upgraded" version of Walter, who controls the flight of the Covenant. In Walter, the producers have revised the functions responsible for "humanity" and the ability to create, so that the questions of existence that torment David are not entirely clear to him, and the "brothers" will have to figure out a lot in private face-to-face conversations
