A New (B)earth, In A Familiar Womb.

Rating: 6/10 (13 May 2018)

The crew that landed on the Earth-like planet were both careless and callous. They requested and encouraged the crew still left on the Covenant, to descend into territory of which who's dangers they were fully aware of, and allowed for thousands of lives to be put at risk, so theirs could be saved.
That however, didn't necessarily diminish my enjoyment of this movie, as it was really a mixed bag of the same old tired repetition of the Alien franchise formula and stalled structure, with a dash of something new in the form of knowing who exactly, and in fact, created the aliens, but, there was some major "bad" in that revelation.
Prometheus gave the impression that it was the origin point of the aliens, including the planet they were on, and that those aliens were created by the superior human race, just to find that nope, both the planet and the "superiors" were just some kind of filler.
Also, the exciting story is experiencing Shaw's journey into encountering this new race and its planet, however, we were robbed of this story, where David being the creator would've then worked as an exciting twist. Sadly, because of the lack of proper story progression, the David twist ended up being annoyingly predictable and monotonous.
Characteristically, Alien: Covenant is a lot like 1986's Aliens, so personally, I wouldn't understand how anyone who praised Cameron's work then, would find major fault in Scott's work here.
The idea is still amazing. "God" creates man. Man creates android. Android creates alien. Alien kills android's god, and its gods' god, for its own god; a covenant. Absolutely, a story too exciting, but sadly, handled with heavy hands. The Alien franchise could've rotated around the sun, instead, it merely rotated around its own axis. 6.3/10.
P.S. What exactly is going on, on Earth? What does Earth look like in this franchise? Does it look like how it does at the end of Resurrection, or does it not? If it does, why? What happened? Is the "terraforming" just an innovation, or is it a desperate necessity?