Pointless

Rating: 3/10 (15 August 2017)

Covenant is basically a comedy lesson in how not to plan a colony mission. Everything imaginable that the crew under no circumstances must do they go ahead and do anyway. On this level, the movie is entertaining in a dumb way, like a really poor horror film - how can a crew on such a critical mission go ahead and land on an alien planet, without safety suits, essentially with full complement of mission-critical people? When they're not even in actual danger? When they have a clear target planet elsewhere? And that's just the start. We've seen silly stuff from Scott in Prometheus, but this trumps it all.
It's absolutely not worth watching. The script is so bad it's a farce. If you are a movie maker or a visual artist, there's some nice scenery and imagery you might be interested in, but I suggest you fast forward through the movie to get to it, in order to save time as well as to avoid experiencing any part of the "plot". The final "revelation" of the origin of Aliens becomes completely obvious about halfway into the movie and is just as pointless as the whole film. Nothing new, nowhere, at all.