anonreviewer

The first two movies in this alien series are two of the best movies of all time. And the number three and number four movies are also excellent movies but the covenant and Prometheus alien movies were really bad and I could not finish them. Unfortunately this one's the same way.. I can't finish it. Main problem is bad acting bad bad acting... the main protagonist is not a good actor.. there's an Android and he is a really bad actor.. one big problem is the cast is young .. it takes years to develop acting skills.. and because the cast is so young and unskilled, the director can't really take any good shots of the faces of the actors because it would ruin the movie even worse than it's already ruined..

This is a fairly good movie, but the most remarkable thing about is that plot elements of this movie appear in the pulitzer prize winning book Lonesome Dove, written by Larry McMurtry.

The two main characters in this movie and their journey from texas to montana is very similar to the plot of lonesome dove.

I believe that the screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for this movie, James Lee Barrett, hired mcmurtry to write (or co-write) the screenplay for this movie. I believe that barrett also used mcmurtry to write the screenplay for the movie Bandolero, which is even more similar to lonesome dove than is this movie.

Also, mcmurtry may have helped write the screenplay for Shenandoah, another movie which credits barrett as screenwriter.

Mcmurtry wrote a book called Film Flam, which was all about hollywood, and this book shows that mcmurtry had extensive experience writing for hollywood.

Some good acting here, by ray liotta in pertickler....the script is not great...fairly good direction...great production values....definitely watchable...