High Expectations... Low Delivery

Rating: 4/10 (1 June 2017)

I was hoping that Prometheus had all been a terrible, terrible error of judgement and that Covenant would re-focus the franchise. Having heard that Ridley Scott believes that the franchise drifted beyond it's initial concept (Alien Resurrection did little to disprove that particular point) it was always on the cards that this film would push Prometheus's story line. The trouble is, it doesn't.
This film could almost exist without anything from Prometheus other than explaining how David came to be on this planet. In Alien you came to care somewhat about the characters, and even in the cannon- fodder-ful Aliens you still cared about some of the characters. I wasn't so bothered about the prisoners in 3 or the smugglers in Resurrection (don't mention the abomination that appears at the end) but in Prometheus and Covenant I couldn't care less what happens to them.
Too many things they do just don't make any sense like bringing a spaceship much lower to a storm than the AI wants to or looking into an embryo pod because you're asked to. Would you put your head against a lit cannon just because someone told you to?
This film is dull, predictable and forgettable.