Masked Sequel to the Infamously Bad Prometheus

Rating: Null/10 (22 May 2017)

I purchased my ticket with great hopes that the movie would be almost as good as the ones with Sigourney Weaver. Boy was I let down. From the opening scene with Guy Pearce and Michael Fassbender, when I thought to myself, "Oh, no!" my worst nightmare came true. Money flushed down. While Prometheus was just plain bad, Covenant had moments of more mature dialogue, but even that was overrun by more moments of sheer stupidity. David, of course, was the android determined to play god and destroy two races in the process in separate acts of genocide (One could not explain why the David/Walter android had aged or why David's hair could grow). Anyway, it seems that androids mostly go bad, mostly. There is David here and in Prometheus, Data was constantly nearly destroying the Enterprise in Star Trek the Next Generation and there was Ash in the original Alien. Someone needs to get a clue. The writers apparently were trying to turn Prometheus and Covenant into origin stories for Alien, set prior to the first film. David, it seems, is the one who has created the alien race, along with the face-huggers, but there are gaping plot holes. In Alien, the crew lands on a planet where they find the remnants of one of the giants' space ships, where the giant astronaut had apparently been killed by the creatures. Yet in Covenant, David has already destroyed them. In Prometheus, the black stuff merely kills, but in Covenant, an alien pops out from the infected person. Neither is there an explanation as to how an alien got on board the Covenant, when we clearly see the doors close after the three have entered. Meanwhile, Daniels, one of two survivors, now captain, is totally clueless that Walter is not really Walter but David (Were they intent upon creating a whole colony of stupid people?) And if there were 1000 colonists on board, why would they need human fetuses or don't colonists breed and have children like normal people? And what were they going to do with the fetuses anyway, just shove them in? These weren't fertilized eggs. They were each 3" long. I'm sure one can even implant fetuses without a placenta in place. Unlike the first four Alien movies, Covenant ended on a note of doom and gloom. Everyone but David is going to die as either a host or fodder for some yet unborn alien. Deaths came quick. All for the best, I suppose, because we really didn't care about any of the crew. Poorly written, sadly directed. I would have walked out at the start if I thought I could have gotten my money back.The only thing that might have made it worse would have been another clone of Ripley, saying, "Who do I have to f--k to get off this planet?"