Country Roads Take Me Home to the Place I belong

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2017)

This film follows "Prometheus" by a decade (2104). The spaceship Covenant is traveling to a colony on Origae, 15 crew members, 2000 colonists, 1140 embryos, when they are disrupted by a neutrino burst being too close to a solar flare. They recover and get a signal from a nearby planet, very similar to Earth. Given the option of exploring this new planet or spending seven more years in cryosleep, they opt to explore, and discover the Prometheus. Aliens follow.
This is certainly not the sequel I expected. The only character introduction was David (Michael Fassbender) and artificial intelligence who asks, "Who created you?" to his human creator. Yes, that was so deep. The aliens, spaceship, killing and explosions were all decent. Character build up didn't exist. If you are traveling in deep space to another star system, you most likely won't travel near any star, let alone two of them.
The neutrino burst had me scratching my head. Neutrinos are mass-less particles that rarely interact with matter. They are extremely difficult to detect without using huge amounts of shielding to eliminate gamma ray interference....which is why the research in done inside mine shafts deep in the earth. If you are close enough to a supernova to be effected by neutrinos, you are already vaporized, Thus having a neutrino detector on a space ship, even if you could construct one, would be useless. That neutrino line was one might expect in a 1950's sci-fi film or maybe it was done as a joke as homage to bad films.
Guide: F-word (about 2 dozen or so) near sex and nudity near end.