Alien Covenant doesn't break any new ground

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2017)

In short, the Aliens franchise is now Friday the 13th. The same killers, killing in the same old way.
And the victims... It's kind of funny that Earth sends these allegedly well-trained crews into space on these super-expensive missions only to have them almost immediately and *inexplicably* botch the mission. How do you train a crew for 10 years and they go off the rails that fast?
Here's the thing...back in the 70's when Alien started, films were very director driven. They had substance. In today's producer-driven Hollywood, they do what's safe and lucrative. Ridley Scott is not exempt from this. He had a chance to do something interesting with Shaw and the Engineers and just flat out whiffed. This is my last Aliens movie and I'm not too optimistic about Blade Runner 2049 either.