Total disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (19 May 2017)

The first movie of the series, Prometheus, was a masterpiece of the Science Fiction genre with deep philosophical questions and a mesmerizing story. But Covenant is a complete antithesis. It's mostly filled with excessive violence, graphic scenes better suited to hardcore horror movies, while it lacks the story and the philosophy is reduced to an ideological prop for more violence. I hoped for uncovering, at least to a certain extent, of the shroud of mystery around our creator(s) and their motivations. Instead you get such an absurd plot, which does nothing to improve our understanding.
And yes, as others noted here, a lot of things have been copy pasted from the older Alien and Prometheus series. No originality whatsoever. To make things worse, they didn't even release a 3D version of a movie that would have offered amazing possibilities. A cheap money making machine.
The main actors Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup played well, but the script is ruining the movie.
SPOILER: About the storyline
Logic is being dumped by a crew of people thinking with their primitive brain, rather with the prefrontal cortex. And yes, the planet with unbreathable air 10 years before Covenant is being terraformed miraculously in this short timespan. One could forgive that but what about the Engineers in the small city. I got it, they might have been a decaying civilisation, but according to the story in Prometheus, this planet was NOT their home-world but used as a testing laboratory for bio-weapons until 2.000 years ago when their experiments went wrong and the xenomorph escaped laboratory. The creature they created (and not by David as suggested) to cripple humanity destroyed the entire crews of the Engineers' ships parked on the planet in few days two millennia ago. How the hell could have a community of Engineers survive in the nearby small city with such a terrible creature at their doors? And how could they have survived in an unbreathable atmosphere for thousands of years? How on Earth did the first state of the art research ship in Prometheus not detected the monumental buildings of the still inhabited Engineers' city?
And yes, Dr. Shaw singed that taped home return song at the end of Prometheus because she identified the home-world of the Engineers and wanted to go there to find answers. She thought they were the creators of our species and thus their planet was our ancestral home. Instead, we get a disconcerting and unplausible answer that actually this yet inhabitable planet a decade ago was the home-world of the Engineers and they decayed to a peasants like society in a totally life- hostile environment with some (natural or not) terraforming processes at work needing 2 millennia to come to fruition...