Review by stevegordon9

Alien: Covenant is the second part of a planned 3-part prequel to his classic ALIEN planned by master director Ridley Scott. Unfortunately it looks almost certain that Twentieth Century Fox will never allow Scott to make the third prequel despite ALIEN: COVENANT making money. It seems that it didn't make enough money to please the profiteer executives at Fox. This seems endemic to the company as I had a minor experience with the head executive of Fox Australia when I owned a movie poster shop in Melbourne. This CEO brought me a list of all Fox's films that they had posters for and wanted me to tell him which ones were of value. He wanted this all for nothing, offering no payment under the guise that he was going to sell their stock to me. Naturally it was all BS. He just wanted to know which ones were valuable because he had no idea. These are the kind of people that run film studios, the people that Scott has to deal with to this day. They have no idea about film, no idea about it as an art form, and even no idea what is going to be popular. And that is why the third instalment of Scott's brilliant ALIEN prequels will never be made. Unlike Scott, the people who populate film studios are people with no vision, no artistic integrity, and really no knowledge of their medium at all. They would do better to trust directors and just keep an eye on their budgets while they leave them alone to make the films that make money for them. In this second instalment, the Covenant is a ship like Prometheus seeking new worlds to colonise. On board is Walter, a facsimile of the David robot but now updated, a crew of 14, and 2000 colonisers. The Covenant undergoes a solar storm in transit and decides to pull into a nearby planet from which a John Denver signal is emanating. This happens to be the planet of the Space Jockey race from Alien who in Prometheus we discover have actually created humankind. The story goes on from there, and answers to questions raised in PROMETHEUS are provided. Again, we are witness to amazing things in this second prequel and the art direction is once again fabulous and a treat to watch. The tension begins from the moment the landing craft from Covenant arrives on this newly-discovered planet. And it doesn't let up. Another incredible film from Ridley Scott and his brilliant team and crew.