Reminds Me Of The Silly Teen Slasher/Horror Flicks

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2017)

It's ironic, and sad, that this was a de facto remake of the original Alien (1979), by the original director, and he didn't do a credible job of repeating himself.
Alien was a credible sci-fi/horror movie about ordinary people, astro-miners, who got caught up in horribly extraordinary circumstances.
In Alien, a huge mining ship diverts to investigate a communications signal from an uncharted planet. Once they arrive, the crew is attacked by hostile aliens, the crew is decimated, and the alien invader is narrowly defeated...but there is an alien stowaway to set up future sequels.
In Alien: Covenant, a huge colonization ship diverts to investigate a communications signal from an uncharted planet. Once they arrive, the crew is attacked by hostile aliens, the crew is decimated, and the alien invader is narrowly defeated...but there are two alien stowaways to set up future sequels.
Nothing in this "remake" made sense:
1. It is not rational that David could casually fly into a capital city of an advanced space-faring civilization without a security/military challenge.
2. It is not rational that a colonization mission would not have a strong security/military presence on board.
3. There was only one city on this planet...and this city had no defenses whatsoever?
4. All but three of the crew had to go to the planet surface?
5. They had to land in water when there was a city within walking distance?
6. They walked around on a strange planet without spacesuits and without any regard for airborne and waterborne pathogens?
7. MOTHER didn't recognize that David was an impostor? If MOTHER could recognize that an alien was aboard, she should have realized that another synthetic was aboard.
8. The crew didn't know about Walter's self-healing capabilities? They should have and David stapling his facial wounds should have immediately tipped them off that this was David.
It's been five years since Prometheus, but this looks like a rush job to milk the franchise. Awful in every respect.