Not such a bad movie

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2017)

Alien : Covenant is quite the return to a real Alien-like movie, with a lead that is almost perfect in being both strong; cunning and fragile at the same time, making her even more human than Ripley was.
The movie itself is enjoyable, their photo director is one of the best in the business, it has some twist compared to the usual Alien franchise as there is more evil than mindless predators. There is plenty of room for doing something really nice in the next opus too.
This movie quite explains in the first 5 minutes why prometheus was such a mess and who was behind it, it is also the real origin of the Aliens.
Furthermore, it seems that most people forgot that in EVERY Alien movie characters make absolute stupid decisions (besides Ripley). This is exactly the same thing here in Covenant.
Some spoilers on old aliens i guess if anyone on Earth manage to not having seen them yet...
OG Alien - Everyone goes alone chasing the queen, leading to all their death. The first dude also stares at a biologic egg for a while who in his/her right mind would do that ? The dinner : You got a guy, with an alien sticked to his face, said alien just dies for no reason, dudes says "hey i'm fine", so, yeah, let's just invite him back to dinner and forgot anything happened, right ?
AlienS - Too many bad decisions to count, between a total useless lieutenant and a corporate monster, 75% of the marines get killed for no reason.
In 3 and 4 people tend to have much better decisions but, surprise, they aren't corporate crews, they are either inmates or mercenaries. All the "corporate dudes" in 3 and 4 are total morons too.
So, yeah, again, in an Alien movie, with a corporate crew, people make bad decisions, big surprise there.
Spoilers here (but very very mild) Also, people complain that they don't send the android scouting alone on the planet... They have only one and he's the only one able to fly the ship unless you want the crew to never sleep.
Why they have only one ? - Because it's probably more expensive than the whole ship; we don't know how much it costs. - Because profit - And, most of all, because in Scott's Aliens, human life is totally worthless, it goes way below a cat's life, for example.
And that's my whole concern with Scott : he HATES humanity. The older he gets the worse it gets.
The whole purpose of prometheus was to show that mankind was worthless, that we were created by and that we created ourselves, much more advanced beings. The precursor dudes destroys Wayland like a 1$ fake barbie doll even tho that person is, probably, the most brilliant mind on Earth. Covenant is just one step further down that rabbit hole.
Which is why, I honestly think Ridley should stop directing Alien, as he is too self destructive. Better leave Denis Villeneuve or Gareth Edwards do the next Alien, it would be much better.