Now I don’t mean to make fun of depression or fatal drug abuse by any means as it’s clearly sad that none of these poor souls were able to find the help they needed for themselves so they could be there for their families. I guess I’m just wondering why they had to go and scrubby peeps like Eddie Vedder and Gavin Rossdale are still here. Did Rossdale make a deal with the devil while playing one of his henchmen in Constantine? "Finger licking good!" Or does the devil simply get enjoyment from forcing us to watch Vedder’s awful acting performance in the movie Singles? I guess we’ll never know.
But maybe director Ridley Scott is thinking the same thing after losing his brother Tony at such an early age. Why is Tony gone but pieces of complete waste like Michael Bay and Lars von Trier are still here? Well I guess some good did come out of it as Ridley has apparently decided to dedicate the rest of his days on this Earth to providing us with sequels and prequels to his game changing Sci-Fi flick Alien.
Now there is a lot of hatred out there for his first effort in Prometheus; although I cannot understand why as it included all of the essential elements of a classic Alien film. It had of course an alien, a strong female lead, a robot, and annoying characters, all of whom you wanted to see die a horrible death. Well Covenant has more of the same in it but in addition to that, it has Michael Fassbander in an expanded role. Fassbender’s character and his performance in this film, are what help make Covenant one of the best films Ridley has made in the last two decades.
I won’t give anything away but just know that human stupidity is what ultimately leads to this space crew’s tragic demise. Ten years after Noomi Rapace saves Earth from being destroyed by the hands of the giant and grumpy engineers, a group is sent out on a colonization expedition with the hopes of finding another planet that can sustain human life. Well after randomly running into solar flares that cause damage to the ship, the crew is awakened early to help get the ship fixed and put back on track. But as they do, they hear a distress signal from a nearby planet that sounds like a human singing a John Denver song. Now why anyone who is flying anything would hear the voice of John Denver and decide to head towards it is beyond me. That’s like hearing the voice of Magic Johnson or Charlie Sheen just before you bang a stripper, you just have to know how it’s going to end.
But they decide to put the lives of 2000 people who are stuck in cryo-sleep at risk and head towards it anyway, mainly because they didn’t feel like getting back into their sleep pods. Well, as I’m sure you can imagine, the second they land on this strange planet, horrible things start to happen and aliens appear out of nowhere. Now to this point, it sounds just like every other Alien film you’ve seen, but again the difference between what you’ve seen in the past and Ridley’s latest, is Fassbender. He brings such a dark and evil edge to this film that I couldn’t believe what I was experiencing. It almost made me feel guilty for liking it. Again I can’t go into details without ruining it but just know that you will rarely see a performance of this caliber in a Sci-Fi film; especially one that has Kenny Powers in it.
So having said all of that, if you still have any reservations at all about seeing this film, don’t! Every part of the intricate plot is well thought out and the action scenes are off the charts. As a matter of fact, it’s the perfect blend of science fiction and action. And it’s because of this that I give it a rating of very FRESH!
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