What have they done ... ?!

Rating: 3/10 (8 July 2017)

I thought the bad reviews are all exaggerated. But after seeing the movie I need to admit they were right: This is indeed a horrible Alien movie. If not even the worst.
1) The crew is utterly stupid and unprofessional. 2) The plot is weird and questionable. 3) The presentation is awful and the decisions are insulting.
First, nobody of the crew is being introduced. So you don't feel connected to any of them. They just show up, eventually die and you feel like they were only there to serve the role as cannon fodder. After some of them died you learn "Ah that was her husband" or "Oh that was his wife". While for the others, you still have no idea what role they had on the mission at all even after the movie ended. And while exploring the (unknown) planet, they are completely lightheaded. They step on sh*t, touch sh*t, put their head into sh*t, ignore rules, disable safety features, risk the live of over 2.000 colonists for one person, etc.
Second, the story we get told here is pretty weird. While this was the sequel to Prometheus, it has nothing to do with it. Except that it features David and the ship of the Engineers Elisabeth Shaw took. We don't learn what happened on their trip after Elisabeth Shaw and David left LV-223. What turned David into this lunatic? Why did he abuse Elisabeth for his experiments and committed genocide on the Engineers? Although we see a short cut-scene about what happened when they arrived at the planet, it feels half-assed, misplaced and doesn't explain anything. It only raises eyebrows and more questions.
Third, the presentation of the whole story and the decisions of the direction are terrible. Before, the Xenomorph, like the Predator, was a fearsome, mysterious and powerful creature with unknown origins. And in Alien: Covenant we learn that the Xenomorph is nothing else but the creation of a "mad scientist" named David, the android. This is maybe the worst thing about the whole movie, it slaughters the whole mystery behind the Xenomorph.
There is so much wrong with this movie. I loved all the previous Alien movies. I even loved Prometheus. But Alien Covenant is insulting. I have no idea what Ridley Scott was thinking.