Another Brainfart Alien Movie in the Series

Rating: 4/10 (27 August 2017)

(major spoilers) No better than "Prometheus", even with director Ridley Scott helming, "Alien Covenant"'s script is Dead on Arrival with ridiculous lapses in judgment of characters and a complete void of logic on too many occasions beyond forgiveness. This is in spite of fairly competent effects, a shame really. Once again plot developments rely on clichéd stupidities and mistakes of supposed "trained" crew. Later we preposterously have the android acting as parent to baby aliens replete with soothing flute music. Ending 20 min is laughably predictable and retrodden. This is the same unchecked overthinking in earlier entries that gum up simple effective stories. There's a clear homage to "Blade Runner" in one sequence, but this movie doesn't get close to Scott's earlier movies, is a mess, and yet another letdown in the series unfortunately. 4/10 Poor.