Truly dreadful !

Rating: 1/10 (11 January 2020)

Rarely have I experienced such unmitigated tripe. In fact, to call "Alien Covenant" tripe is to be unfair to tripe; it's much, much worse than that.
Supposedly mature and experienced space travellers behave like absolute morons, screaming, rushing around to little purpose, failing to take even the most rudimentary of safety precautions and generally making up the most ludicrous spaceship crew ever assembled; even the crew of "Red Dwarf" are more realistic than this lot of pathetic losers.
Much of the 'action' is rehashed from the original "Alien", a film of immeasurably greater quality in all departments, and doesn't have the benefit of being in the least bit realistic, well acted or anything but an opportunity for showing quantities of blood and gore spewing out from back, front, head and any other available bodily part. Yes, some of the scenes could be considered scary but they have no context other than being scary; there is no coherent story within which to set them. The acting is formulaic, the dialogue mundane; the direction is all over the place. The special effects and cgi are mostly horribly obvious, unrealistic and awful.
The original "Alien" was a brilliant groundbreaker and its sequel was also decent. Thereafter, they've rather gone downhill and "Alien Covenant" really is scraping the very bottom of the deepest imaginable barrel. On a scale of 1 to 10, this is a big fat ZERO; on a scale of 1 to a 100, it's still ZERO. Sadly, I have to give it 1 for my vote to count but that rating is given under the strongest of protests.