Divine David (featuring Richard Wagner, obligatory genocide, and all your beloved Alien(TM) friends) (+free flute lessons)

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2018)

Apparently nothing says "bad guy" like a character who is all "Now give me some Richard Wagner, fam."
I won't even bother divulging into what made me rate this well-polished yet laughably dreadful flick so low, let's say the plot-convenient "solar flare incident" caused this.
As for the Synth subplot, David (Michael Fassbender) is a formidable foe and a well-developed character just like Sigourney Weaver's Ripley was in the 1980s Alien series but at the same time, an "artificial person" being made a villain, yet again? Stop it already, Scott, you can only plunder and loot your older movies for story for so long.
The Walter/David confrontation, both philosophical and physical, was particularly stimulating and captivating and if "Alien: Covenant" was just that --- first David showing pity for frail, aging Weyland (another charismatic figure in the Alien series, played by Guy Pearce), who David realizes is no omnipotent "creator" but a mere mortal (hu)man, followed by the fallout between duty/program-bound Walter vs. free will-harboring David --- I would rate it favorably.
* What you are NOT going to see: A sensible crew (for a SF movie, I mean), wearing Hazmat suits on a breathable albeit unknown planet, abstaining from sticking their nose into peculiar lifeforms' rears or trampling on everything while wearing simple camping gear and hunting hats as if they were a bunch of drunken fishermen in Alaska.
* What you are going to see: David, the prodigal android, "teaching" Walter, an inexperienced naive android, to play on his flute.