Champagne with a dash of Tabasco sauce

Rating: 6/10 (31 May 2017)

Alien Covenant had all the potential to be a great installment in the series and a great movie in general, but they've managed to ruin it.
And ... the most annoying thing is that they've succeeded in doing the difficult tasks and failed the easier ones.
The plot is OK. It's visually stunning. Beautiful backgrounds, good costumes and fluently mixed CGI. They've managed to create a believable, coherent and well-motivated villain(Something few movies do). The entire beginning of the movie are his back story.
Yet all this potential is wasted by the badly written crew members. From the moment they set foot on the planet I was ... "Really!?!?!? You really did that??!?!". They are supposed to be top scientists and professional security personal arriving on an unknown, biologically active and probably hostile new planet. Yet they act as if taking part in Sesame Street. I understand that sometimes you need a little bit of cheese to create the setting for the rest of the movie, but they already went through the trouble to create the villain. They could have used his character to create that setting. All this cheese was completely avoidable and unnecessary.
So much potential and hard work, wasted so easily. What a pity!