Friday, May 19, 2017

Alien: Covenant

Caught this with my movie buddy on GV Popcorn Tuesday
Director: Scott Ridley

Starring this lead female (played by Katherine Waterson) who appears demure but can singularly take down an alien. This was towards the end when they finally depart weird land and this spend hops on. All but 3 of them survived the ordeal, tw of whom are humans, from the initial 15 people team.

Shows you what happens when a woman is on fire. Damn pissed and goes all out to protect her home.

The show starts a bit slow trying to lay the context and recount the previous episodes. While on their way in search of habitable land which will take 7 more years, the shuttle takes a hit which Walter the robot (ever dashing Michael Fassbender) tries to contain. A few sleeping crew were incinerated in their sleep as those cacoons they were sleeping in could not disengage. Talk about dying in your sleep!

Anyway amongst them was the captain, our female lead's husband.

While repairing the shuttle, they detected a familiar American country tune and suspects there is Earth-like land nearby. "Country home, take me home, to the place, I belong..."

First ship lands and investigates. Two of them accidentally breathed in some spores and that's when things went haywire. One made it back to shipa and was contained in the room. The alien sure grows fast and is so strong! All 3 perished and the ship caught fire. The sad thing was the other friend was trapped in this room and did not even have the equipment to fight.

The other group and the depressed Captain were saved by this mysterious hooded being which brought them to his lair. David the robot, which is identical to Walter, brought them to his trap where he is obsessed with creating life.

All dies here except the female lead

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