There seems to be an error in this review. The score for the movie reads '7', when it should be '0'.
Jokes aside, this is by some margin the most disappointing movie I've ever seen. It's truly terrible. An unredeemable train wreck which managed to trash what little remained of the Alien series. That said, I haven't seen Covenant, so perhaps Ridley has managed something even worse. Fortunately I'll never know.
I just hope Blade Runner 2049 doesn't end up the same way.
Totally agree with Mr. Harlow,Covenant made this mess a bit better.
I think that RS has still got it,but he has been working with lousy scripts.IMO,his only really solid movie in the last decade was The Councelor,although it is quite a polarising one and some may describe it as a pretentious snafu.
People are still way too hung up on resolution. This amazes me as the same people will say 1080p streamed is not as good as bluray.......(which it isnt)So this UHD disc version had exactly the same 7.1 track as the previous Bluray/3D releases then?
I saw this in shop when I got the Covenant UHD disc and was thinking of getting it, but there doesn't seem to be much better about it than previous Bluray I already own - even resolution is the same.
I loved prometheus, quite shocking they threw all that away in the latest alien movie that was absolute crap. I couldn’t wait to seeI really liked Prometheus. Largely because I still have the 'Book of Alien' which I was given as a kid sometime after the original Alien came out. Looking at it now 40? years on, some of the themes and even plot devices are shown in that book from the concept stages of the movie's production.
Ideas for costumes and sets and even a scene where they return a head to the ship for analysis, are recognisable in those original sketches. Realising that Scott was returning to ideas stored away for decades after budget restraints forced them to be rejected in favour of a simpler 'haunted house' plot made me appreciate what he was trying to achieve. I also think the death of his brother may have played a role in how some of the themes were shoehorned into the plot less successfully. Still liked it though.
4k disc is a definite upgrade though.I’m a fan. It raised so many questions that I was fascinated with & thought about many months later.
No Atmos in the UHD? I’ll stick with the BD for now.…