Human nature is gory

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2017)

Alien Covenant presents us a bunch of stupid, unprepared and at times childish humans who are on their way to colonize a new planet, since we (presumably) already ruined our own.
I agree with the plot failures pointed out by all these reviews that simply crushed the movie, but I still adored the film, because I saw past them or just didn't care. The human characters were only there to keep us entertained and fulfill the horror premise. But what was REALLY interesting went on with the androids. They taught us all the lessons, if only we were willing to learn.
Ridley Scott was brave (or stupid) enough to take a loved sci-fi horror saga and turn it into a philosophical set of movies that makes us think about what human nature is all about and what our future, as a species, will be if we don't "be kind", as one of the characters explicitly mentions, in the final moments of the film.
Yes, it is a horror movie and all the gory, tensed-up moments are there, along with a lot of action and some quite impossible stunts.
But (and following the tradition of the Alien saga, where human greed always has disastrous consequences) it is also a slap in the face: Humans' god complex will ultimately lead to our destruction... but, we still have a chance, even if the characters didn't. We can choose to be better, be kinder, be more tolerant and walk towards a future that doesn't involve the nightmarish deaths that the (most human) droid believed we all deserve.