Crash and burn out

Rating: 1/10 (21 August 2017)

It seems the writers of Aliens these days have no clue to what made the original movies so great. Even Alien 3 seems like a total masterpiece compared to this mess.
It seems with every Alien movie after part 3 it just gets worse and worse. With Aliens VS Predator being the only exception. That worked brilliantly so of course they had to screw up the second movie by taking two of Sci-Fi 's great creatures and melt them into one. How stupid can you get?
With Covenant the stupid remains. The characters do stupid things for stupid reasons. Hard to imagine Captain Dallas making any similar decisions. Are these clowns really charged with this important mission? The second in command acts like an wimpy army priest. Someone really put him second in command?. For whatever reason I wonder. On the basis of what skill?
Basically all the characters suck and the whole plot is just terrible and highly predictable. What I loved about the original films was that it felt and looked very real. The people were real and you felt like you were right there with them, on the Nostromo or on LV-426. The Alien was bloody scary!. Covenant just feels so unrealistic that you don't care at all.
These days if you want a taste of what Alien should be like, then try the computer game Alien-Isolation. That'll bring you right back to the essence of the series. Where you are on the edge of your seat with a panic gripped mind, trying to find out what the hell is going on.
But that was made by fans of the Alien movie, not suits trying to target a market.
Needless to say, I will not be watching any sequels.