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– Warning: this review contains several spoilers.
The sixth installment of the Alien franchise and Prometheus’ direct sequel, Alien: Covenant aims to revisit the concept behind the iconic monster by contextualizing it around the discussions sparked by its predecessor. The movie, however, has some obvious shortcomings, failing to develop most of its characters and to build a proper climax.
This time, the story accompanies the crew of the spacecraft Covenant, who is traveling on a colonization mission. After an accident that kills the captain of the ship, the team receives a transmission from a nearby planet and, [...]