Sadly, a disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (9 May 2017)

I wish I had posted a positive comment of a successful sequel to the enigmatic prequel (or reboot) from the 2012 movie that reintroduced the famous double jawed, slimy, orca sounding vertebrae with cooling tubes from a Rolls-Royce: Prometheus. Sadly, in a nutshell it is a letdown. A combination of déjà-vu, awkward references to previous films (which i feared and appreciated altogether) and lazy script-writing choices.
The movie sets out to develop the connections between the androids and the xenomorph with humans in-between to provide some depth... or so. Why not... However the story finally focuses on how to decimate them without consideration towards the unveiling of the plot. One could say the Covenant is a rebooted version of the Nostromo; only you would expect more than better special effects and known recipe from past movies. There was plenty of room for imagination on that colony ship. It is all the more annoying since the first minutes of the movie are actually captivating. And about the crew... You may like some of the characters, they're not all bad. But be prepared to an excruciating annoyance towards the ones that repeatedly behave in the worst possible way. Until they vanish into oblivion. Also the duality of the android character is very poorly exploited, while you could expect an interesting parallel based on the Ash/Bishop antagonism we enjoyed not so many years ago. Finally, like in too many recent movies that tends to reboot the good stories from an earlier age, prepare yourself for some poor ill referenced lines: "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" and so on... A very ordinary movie that should not be.