Makes Alien Resurrection look good

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2017)

***Contains spoilers***** Alien Covenant........... where to start......
Firstly like everyone else who took time to write a review I was eagerly awaiting to see Alien Covenant.
I went to the Movie Theater and after the movie finished, I came out feeling cold.
God knows Prometheus was not perfect - but it least it left the audience asking many questions and there was the mystery around the who the engineers were, and why they wanted to kill off the human race with the virus and many other questions.
So I was eagerly awaiting to see a movie with a great story that would answer at least some of the questions..... but what did we get? A synthetic (Android) with Daddy complex, who flew back to the engineers planet and wiped them out by using the virus on them.
The Alien was more of a side story wrapped around the twist that it was the Android who worked on the virus to perfect the Alien form.
I'm sorry but this is lazy writing and boring. This is not a return to form and in many ways Prometheus is superior to Covenant.
The film is any other context would have been good (which is why I gave the movie a reluctant 6) - but for a Ridley Scott Alien movie.... it is not good enough and for me has destroyed the mystery behind where the Alien came from.
Some people are saying that the film makers have once last chance left to redeem themselves in the final part of the Trilogy to be released in 2019 - but for me I cannot see that happening and I have lost faith in the Alien Prequel Franchise - Even worse the end of Alien Covenant sets up the Synthetic (Michael) to continue as a central character/theme of the final of the Trilogy. Come on!! What about the engineers? what about the Alien??? Hmmmm.... what to do now...? I will watch Alien Resurrection, maybe that will cheer me up!!