Ridley Scott just made the Alien jump the shark...

Rating: 1/10 (24 May 2017)

Awful, awful, awful movie.
I was expecting, anticipating and hoping for so much more. I 'liked' Prometheus, yes it had some issues, but it showed some promise that a better more cohesive movie could and would follow it. Alien: Covenant is not that movie.
I enjoyed probably the first hour of Alien: Covenant, it had a fantastically surreal opening with an interaction between Guy Pearce as Weyland with 'still' terrible old age make-up (why can't they get that right in these movies?) and the fantastic Fassbender. It sets perfect tone for what should have been a great ride into the human psyche mirrored in the personification of his creation. Alas it does not...
I'm not going to list everything wrong with this movie, as it will take too long as there is so much wrong with this movie. Clearly the writers do not understand nor care about he mythos and the lore of any of the previous Alien movies. They were clearly told to ignore almost any reference to Prometheus other than to connect it loosely to that movie and get it out of the way as quickly as possible.
Ridley Scott has now accomplished what George Lucas did with Episode I with Midichlorians (yeah) and screwed up a great franchise just like Spielberg did with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - that's right he has now entered the hall of fame of 'I know how to screw up a good thing, and not take advice or guidance from those around me because they are too scared to give it and don't give a crap anyway'.
The Alien is seriously made into a similar slasher character in this movie to that of the Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm street sequels and NOT the good ones. Ridley Scott clearly wanted to get the creature onto the screen as soon as he could once it was revealed (as a weird fully formed miniature Alien, why?) had it grow full size in 2 seconds and start killing everything and anything around it (mainly glass windows as well as humans) as fast as he possibly could.
It even has the same/similar ending to what... 3 of the other Alien movies, really? That's the ONLY way to kill an Alien? Shoot it out into the vacuum of space, nothing more original than that, really?
Absolutely terrible movie, Someone take this franchise away from Ridley Scott and give it to a good writer who understands the genre and the lore and reboot it properly with a young original director unafraid to take chances and has a vision. (I know Blomkamp is the favourite, I'd be OK with that, but Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) would be my choice.
Fassbender was the only saving grace to this train-wreck and without him it would have been EVEN worse if that's imaginable.