
第一波影評偏正面, 而且法鯊表演被肯定!
‘Alien: Covenant’ Critical Roundup: MichaelFas**ender Is Singled Out for Praise in Early Reviews of Ridley Scott’s LatestCritics are pleased with, if not over the moonfor, the sci-fi saga's new chapter.
Michael Nordine
If big things have small beginnings, do they also havemedium-sized second chapters? That’s one question being addressed by the firstround of “Alien: Covenant” reviews, most of which lean positivewithout being over the moon for Ridley Scott’s latest. IndieWire’s Eric Kohnsays that the film “unfolds as a hybrid of the ponderous philosophy in‘Prometheus’ and the run-and-gun survival tactics of the first two ‘Alien’movies, landing on plenty of satisfying beats but struggling to balance thedissonant approaches.”
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In her three-star (out offive) review, Cath Clarke ofTime Out London praises Michael Fas**ender:
“Really,this is David/Walter’s show. For reasons too spoilery to give away, Fas**enderis electric, giving a spectacularly skin-crawling performance.”
Screen International’s Fionnuala Halligan is less impressed:
“It mayfurther the narrative which commenced in 2012’s ambitious ‘Prometheus,’ bringing us closer tothe events of 1979’s‘Alien,’ but it’s a long, flat, no-frills journey which struggles to engagedespite its many bloody shocks.”
Robbie Collin,meanwhile, gives the film a perfect five stars in his Telegraph review:
“‘Alien:Covenant’ is a mad scientist film – arguably, one of the maddest. It’sgrandiose, exhilarating, vertiginously cynical and symphonically perverse, andaround a million miles from the crowd-pleasing ‘Alien’ retread TwentiethCentury Fox have presumably been begging the 79-year-old director to make.”
On this side of the pond,The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy is similarly enthusiastic:
“The dramaflows gorgeously and, unlike in many other franchises in which entries keepgetting longer every time out, this one is served up without an ounce of fat.It provides all the tension and action the mainstream audience could want,along with a good deal more.”
Somewhere in between thetwo extremes is Alonso Duralde of TheWrap:
“On agutbucket genre-film level, ‘Alien Covenant’ delivers when it delivers. As withso many of its monster-movie peers, however, there’s just not much to it whenthe creature isn’t preening for its close-up.”