We have purposely trained them wrong, as a joke!

Rating: 1/10 (19 May 2017)

A colony ship is sent from earth to a remote planet. Someone in charge must have *really* hated those colonists, since they chose the most stupid and inept crew imaginable to try and get them to their new home.
If you thought that some of the characters and their actions in Prometheus were dumb, hold on to your hats, because things are about to get worse in Alien:Covenant.
Other people have already provided comprehensive lists of the many mind-bogglingly stupid moments in this movie. But it would be remiss not to mention at least one highlight. After interrupting a clearly crazy android in the process of trying to make friends with an alien creature that decapitated one of his crew members just moments before, the captain decides to follow the android into a damp basement, to have a good chat. Curious about weird slimy eggs that he sees there, the captain is momentarily cautious. But then the same clearly murderous and doesn't-care-for-humanity android proceeds to tell him that it's quite safe to look more closely. So the captain leans right in for a good look. Guess what happens next?
Really, if these people were carrying the hopes of humanity for a new start on another world, then perhaps David's plan to stop them at all costs isn't so bad.
Other disappointments are the removal of Shaw, the heroine of Prometheus who had made it her personal mission to find the Engineers and ask them: "Why??". By simply killing her off in "between time", Alien:Covenant essentially made the trials and challenges that she previously went through completely meaningless. And while the movie tried to incorporate some other "deep" questions, overall those attempts came across as shallow re-hashings of tired issues such as the role of "faith", and "evil AI".
On the positive side, overall the movie looks beautiful, with top-notch camera-work and special effects. (But while the aliens look great in most scenes, was it really necessary to have a dancing xenomorph hatchling that looks like it was inspired by the freaky CGI Dancing Baby from old Ally McBeal episodes?)
It's too bad that despite all the money that was clearly spent on art direction and special effects, there seems to once again have been no funding left to get the script proof-read by someone who possesses even a small dose of sense or logic.
Unfortunately, despite high hopes for a strong continuation of this franchise, Alien:Covenant was a huge disappointment.