Another Covenant - like movie

Rating: 4/10 (20 July 2017)

Another movie with a bad script. Another movie with good actors and an average director wasted by a bad script. Another movie where astronauts are dumb. Guess in the next future scientist and astronauts will be recruited outside a pub or directly from an asylum.
1) The biologist is a black Briton (we need a black in each movie and the US crew was already cast); wheel-chaired (yes, you sent out in space a person with disabilities); stupid (as a biologist myself involved with bad "bugs", I got mad when he started touching and playing with the "thing", calling it "Calvin). 2) The "cowboy" (Ryan Reynolds). He is so brave that he succeeded in capturing a full speed probe from Mars, just standing outside the ISS and using a robotic "hand". Of course he will die soon doing the dumbest (and forbidden by all safety protocols) thing: trying to rescue the other dumb (the biologist) when "the thing" was still alive. 3) The veteran MD (Jake Gyllenhaal). Guess what? He is also disturbed. Not by his +400 dd permanence in the space; he suffers of a sort of PTSD dating back to his days as army MD in Syria (after the PTSD from Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afghanistan and Iraq, Syria is the must in contemporary scripts). I am still waiting for someone to explain me how he ended up on ISS after serving in Syria "building hospitals". He despises mankind  and in fact he will be the cause, although unwillingly, of the "invasion"
4) CDC quarantine expert. What? You don't send someone out in space just because she prepared something so basic as a quarantine protocol  that will eventually fail.
5) etc etc
We have here the very same problems of all Covenant-like movies. Characters are stupid and their action is the easiest way to make things happen. We are light years from the perfect plot of Alien or The Thing, where characters did everything they could to deal with the unknown and the unpredictable.