Alien: Covenant well-made but marred by predictable story twists

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2017)

I'll do the best impression of the character "David".
Overall superb production values. Well-polished especially the cinematography and improved visual effects.
But, it fails to follow up with the very ending of a strange unique creature in the otherwise turgid and unnecessary prequel Prometheus.
This movie disregards logic that includes the ridiculous chestburster scene that trumps the lore of the original Alien movie.
The twists are predictable as always. I can predict the telegram within the movie, that neither the screenwriters nor the director would hope to prevent. I assiduously avoid the spoilers, yet I am the armchair psychic.
This movie, indeed, is the goriest of the franchise so far.
So gory it detracts from the science fiction thriller aspect, that, along with cinematography, is reminiscent of the early and gruesome "Saw" movies.
This movie is better than Prometheus without the infuriating elements such as awful dialogue and offending subplots that demonstrate the screenwriters to be the hack.
But the fact that Alien: Covenant -- by the returning producers Walter Hill and David Giler (both who re-wrote the original Alien script by Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett that made that movie a feminist parable, despite no writing credit) and even the returning director of the original Alien movie -- chose to disregard the logics that were established in the earlier movies is frustrating since I'm a follower of the Alien legend in the realm of science fiction.
Alien: Covenant is interesting, but its logic is bizarre to be canonical, even with the twists that might confound. Hollywood tries too hard to be clever and original, but they tend to fail.
As always the best part of the movie is the actor Michael Fassbender, who cannot do wrong except stellar acting, even in a mediocre or bad movie.