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Ridley Scott
Michael Fassbender
Katherine Waterston
Billy Crudup
Danny McBride
Demián Bichir
Carmen Ejogo
Amy Seimetz
Jussie Smollet
Callie Hernandez
Nathaniel Dean

As a ship of colonists faces an alien outbreak, Scott masterfully orchestrates the initial pandemonium: Scattered crew members struggle with poor communications, ion storms, blood-vomiting colleagues and an escalating cascade of cock-ups. We are constantly reminded that these aren't soldiers; often, when these people try to help, they make things worse. Covenant could have continued in this vein and delivered a perfectly serviceable action-horror sequel. But Scott has bigger plans. He wants to do so much here: Probe the nature of faith and the mysteries of creation, examine the limits of humanity and intelligence, compare visions of leadership and devotion.
The effect is that of a film at war with itself -- between philosophical ambition and the need to deliver an effective action spectacle. Admittedly, the whipsawing between the lofty and the base, between cerebral musings and visceral thrills, generates its own wild energy -- at least until the disposable and thoroughly uninspiring action-movie theatrics of the final act.
Ridley Scott
Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollet, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean
Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam
20th Century Fox
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