Just getting silly now.

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2017)

In which a young Michael Fassbender utters the immortal line to his older brother, also played by Michael Fassbender, as he teaches him how to play a penny whistle, "I'll do the fingering."
Stop.
Stop right there.
That was silly right?
Alien:Covenant is Ridley Scott being let loose on his wildest fantasies and this time it's almost all about religion. He's apparently in thrall with the notion that Aliens are gods or some such claptrap.
The name of the ship is 'Covenant', the name of the 'Synthetic' that was on Prometheus but has met its fate and who forms a big part of this movie's plot line was David (Michael Fassbender) and David has lured his ten year the junior 'brother' Walter (also Fassbender) to Prometheus and to seek the fate of the 2,000 'covenanters' on board ship.
Although Walter is a more advanced model he is more deeply flawed and has had his emotional intelligence reduced as it became apparent that David was too advanced.
Meanwhile, because this is 2017 rather than 1979 special effects, we get to see much more Alien action, which is in itself good (and creepy) but it's OTT and the Aliens as organisms appear less developed because, remember, this is a prequel to Alien and in the time between the two movies the Aliens have evolved.
It starts great (but slow) the sets are miraculous and the acting largely decent (Katherine Waterston as Daniels is commendable) but the religious theme becomes more and more overbearing and the relationship between Fassbender and Fassbender is preposterous (although well acted).
Although the SFX are great they are just too much and the whole movie descends into a disappointing silly pet project that needs much more script supervision.
Not great I'm afraid.