Destroys everything that has been created

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 2017)

Hello,
I hate this movie and it should never have been done.
Opening thoughts: if you didn't watch Prometheus, don't read through this review as it contains SPOILERS for Prometheus. If you did, you can read down to the Spoiler Alert.
The first element that immediately pop ups as a negative trait is the total lack of character development. You can say characters, except the protagonists, have never been really developed in the Alien franchise, however, AT LEAST, I recall names like Ripley, Hickx, Hudson, Bishop, Vickers, Shaw, Newt. In Covenant, I don't recall any single name except David and Walter. Not even the name of the protagonist!!! That's to say how much care has been put in characters. It totally fails in creating a background of personalities you could care of, identify with, or at least feel sympathy or hate towards! If the objective was to only care about David/Walter, then job's done, total success!!
The second element that really provides a bitter taste are the astonishingly HUGE plot holes of the movie. Every Alien movie had strong plot holes. Prometheus had the biggest ones of the first 5 movies. But Covenant, oh my God, reaches unknown levels of WTF and face-palms... I'm not going to list them as it would be just too long.
But, those two elements are not what made me hate this movie.
What made hate above all this movies are the following 2 elements:
First one links with Prometheus. I liked Prometheus despite a lot of plot holes and incoherence's. I liked it because it was (potentially) setting up a cool and deep background to all the story of Alien and the Space Jockey. As the Prometheus ended, I had the impression that Scott was taking the risk to abandon the Alien movies backbone of "Alien(s) vs Humans" in order to develop Shaw epic travel to understand and answer to all questions arising from Prometheus:

who are the engineers. - why they created us. - why they wanted to destroy humans. - what went wrong on the Outpost. - why the Outpost was abandoned. - why the engineers couldn't succeed in claiming back the Outpost etc.

SPOILER ALERT FROM HERE
Well, if you wanted to have any answer to those questions, don't worry, I'm gonna put it simple: David just nuked any possibility to get any! Thank you David! Thank you!!!!!
The second element is how underwhelming the Aliens now are. In 1979 Alien we see normal humans fighting with an extremely powerful, unknown species, coming from an unknown ship of an unknown race that crashed in an unknown planet for an unknown reason. Imagine the huge possibilities and background Scott had to provide a super cool lore to this! And Prometheus, despite its plot holes was actually providing something really interesting.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, guess what? NOPE!!! Aliens were created by David... Yes yes. An Android created the Xenomorph as we know it. How LAME it is!!!!!!
Now, when I look at a Xenomorph I'm there like: "lolling at your face mate! You're just an ant created by a mad Android".
Pffffffffff
My wife couldn't come with me at the Cinema and she loves Alien franchise as I do. Once back from the Cinema, I told her "if you really want to keep loving Alien movies, don't watch Covenant and stay there with the unanswered questions of Prometheus, thrust me".