Total disappointment, even for a B movie

Rating: 3/10 (20 December 2017)

I watched this film with some level of anticipation and excitement, because I actually felt that Prometheus was a half decent prequel to the alien franchise. Prometheus at least attempted to put a coherent story in place, an exercise where Alien: Covenant (A:C) failed miserably.
With the exception of Alien, and to a certain extent Aliens, the franchise has counted on stupid people making stupid decisions to allow the aliens to take advantage of the situation, but the characters in A:C are so monumentally dumb that it made the entire film unwatchable. It reminded me of watching Armageddon, which is right up there in sheer idiocy.
The characters, who are in charge of an setting up a new colony with 2000 embryos, should be at least be able to make decisions in moments of stress and have a modicum of common sense, and yet:
1) The second in charge decided to just go to a new planet because of a decipherable signal, disregarding 10 years of preparation
2) A crew member decided to arrive at a new planet, go take a leak in the stream and started to light up a cigarette; not to mention the entire crew just decide to go onto an alien planet with NO protection, NOTHING!
3) A crew member see something that is foreign, alien, and clearly man-made (or alien-made), and decided to move in as close as possible such that he can be infected
4) When a shipmate is in trouble, just lock the door and run away
5) When a shipmate is clearly infected, a crew member decides to just carry him with no protection and quarantine
6) When you have a machine gun, just spray bullets around explosives and highly flammable substances that is onboard the only vehicle you have to leave the planet
7) When the captain (was second in command) arrived on a planet filled with corpses of an alien species, found a strange behaving robot, found out said robot created these species that just killed a few of your crew in horrific fashion, you decide to look at these nasty looking giant leather eggs that are clearly alive and created by the robot, with no protection, head first, because the robot told you it is perfectly safe.
8) Two crew members just came back from a horrific mission, with almost the entire crew killed, decided to have sex in the shower without even locking the door (when there are other crew members still walking around)
9) The heroine would decide to climb out of a moving aircraft that is capable of traveling to space to shoot a killing machine that was way too quick for an entire platoon to shoot, instead of just flying to space and suffocating the bastard
10) When you just escaped from a lab of hell from a menacing robot that looks exactly like your own robot, you would just take in the robot, assuming he is your good robot, and trust him entirely without doing any types of checks. Really, these guys deserve to die
11) you would risk the flight stability of your last hope of getting out of a clearly hostile planet by using a giant crane (slow moving one at that) to trap a creature that is too fast for machine guns and bullets (it worked by the way, and yes, a blind grandmother is a better marksman than those idiots)
Speaking of idiocy and inconsistencies, how can the alien crack the glass of a space-worthy craft with nary a few smashes, but have such difficulty smashing the glass of an ordinary truck? I think I can smash the glass of that truck with my head, and I am not a perfect killing machine. And the cracked glass of the space traveling vehicle would somehow not cause issues flying to space afterwards by the way.
I am not sure how trucks can roll out into space with no gravity, not to mention with enough force to puncture an alien.
Then this highly intelligent robot, who was able to create a killing machine by infecting living things through air, would decide the perfect being would have to go through such an intricate and complex way reproducing (egg --> face hugger --> infect/impregnate other species --> burst through body). Why don't they just spread through air in spores?
And while many people would dismiss AVP and Predator 2, this timeline of the xenomorph's creation would invalidate those two stories. Predators have hunted aliens in the 90s according to Predator 2, but A:C is set in the future. AVP claims predators hunts aliens as a passage to adulthood and warrior status for thousands of years.
I have seen every movie in the alien and predator franchise (even the horrible AVP2), and I have to say A:C is right around the bottom of the pile (AVP2 takes the cake, no doubt about it, but A:C is around the same area as Alien 3 and Alien Ressurection. Dear God, an alien with emotions, and Winona Ryder. Speaking of Winona Ryder, all the characters in A:C is as unlikable as her, where you are just rooting for the aliens).
I am still waiting for an alien/predator movie that could be considered good, and when Prometheus is the third best movie of the franchise (Predators was so bad I lost sleep over it), you know there is serious work to be done.
A:C is a B movie at best, that is trying to take itself way too seriously (I actually enjoyed AVP more because AVP knew it was stupid), and failed miserably at it.
Great:
Alien
Predator
Aliens
Decent
Prometheus
Enjoyable (still bad)
AVP
Bad
Predator 2
Dreadful
Predators
A:C
Alien 3
A:C
I would rather be impregnated by a facehugger than to watch this again
Alien Resurrection
What the hell is that? Am I watching Manos?
AVP2