I should have read the reviews before renting...

Rating: 2/10 (2 September 2017)

I had the bright idea to rent this on Amazon Prime. After watching for twenty minutes, I thought the movie hadn't started yet, so I came here to read the reviews...and found that I had made a BIIIGG mistake renting it...
The first 5 minutes is some inexplicable footage, with a man "testing" an android in a huge blank room with a window, a chair, a piano, and a statue. Totally bland and boring as can be...
Suddenly we have the starship Covenant traveling through space, deploying a solar sail array for no apparent reason. We are supposed to read the horribly small print to understand that it is a colony ship, on its way to a planet, with 7 some odd years to go on the trip, with our resident android the only one moving around, tending 2000 frozen colonists and 1500 frozen embryo's...
Mysterious space storm pops up, AI calls the "Doctor" android to the bridge, space storm trashes the solar sail, throws the starship around in a series of suspicious gyrations that knock the cryo pods off their hangers onto the deck (Yes folks, these pods were "hanging" up like clothes on the line)...you get the picture yet ??? Suddenly, because of the storm, a bunch of the people are given emergency wake up calls, fall out of their pods...except for one, whose pod turns bright shades of red light, and then cremates the guy inside with flames...YES, I said flames...that is one heck of a cryo-freeze failure.
AND WE STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHO ANYONE IS !!! And that is only the first 40 minutes...
Before Prometheus I thought Alien Resurrection was the worst, but then Prometheus took the lead on that...now Covenant take the prize as the absolute worst of the franchise...
There is no lead up to the story, no character building at all. A full hour into Covenant, you still have no clue who anybody is...
One reviewer did say it best. Another Ridley Scott film, of supposed professionals, running around doing stupid things...
The plot, if there is one at all, is completely disjointed, and there is a lot of useless action throughout the movie that does absolutely nothing to help you understand what is going on. The acting is horrendously abysmal, to say the least, with no one clearly in charge. People start dying for the dumbest of reasons, or are infected with the xenomorph through an alien "spore" that gets breathed up through their noses. Heck, these idiot characters even go out exploring an unknown alien planet in, what looks like, Russian Revolution hand me down regular clothes, with no real protection at all...
To give you an idea how bad this Covenant is, I felt less angry wasting 20 bucks on "buying" Prometheus, than I do about totally wasting 5.99 to rent this loser of a movie...Alien Covenant is truly that bad...