The Worst Film I Have Ever Seen.

Rating: 1/10 (15 May 2017)

The brilliance of the original Alien movies was the fact that they were so real, that you could actually see the scenario playing out in reality.
Ridley Scott's Alien is a gripping and terrifying masterpiece filled with tension and a compelling cast and scenarios.
Alien: Covenant has NONE of that!
The crew in Alien: Covenant are bunch of bumbling idiots who seem to have been randomly plucked from a couples therapy session for the mentally retarded, rather than being highly trained, highly drilled, highly composed experts, responsible for a trillion dollar colonisation space ship, and it's 2000+ human cargo.
The film has no depth whatsoever, relying on ties to the old movies to give the story line any weight. The script and the dialogue of the film are utterly dumbed down, to expedite the flimsy storyline.
Almost every 5 minutes, one of the crew members makes an obviously wrong decision, which would belie any plausibility that the people chosen to crew the mission were in any way suitable for it.
Let's diverge from our mission. Let's explore this planet that we know nothing about without any protective gear. Let's discharge a firearm inside an explosive ship. Lets hang out in a highly vulnerable location, and not take any precautions to cover ourselves. Let's put our trust in a total stranger, then let's split up for no reason. and it goes on and on.
It's pretty looking, but honestly it is such an abortion of a movie, it eliminates any redeeming qualities. Terrible script, terrible cast, terrible dialogue. TERRIBLE EVERYTHING! If I could give it NO stars, I would.