Well, I'm not gonna nitpick Covenant to death. Production values were up there, some great set designs... One reviewer on Netflix posted a comment meant to skewer the apparent lack of screening deep space exploration crews, and he/she has a point. The levels of freak-outs and hysterics crossed over from heightening tension into plain annoyance.
Guys walk on a foreign planet without PPE beyond gloves and boots, stick their nose into bulbs releasing spores, and voila. Tough luck, dumb ass.
There were some shots reminiscent of the original, as when the Alien's scorpion tail curls up between a human victim's legs. It was creepy the first time. Thirty-eight years ago. Now, it's lazy.
One good scene did redeem some of the film, between the synthetics David and Walter, when Walter corrects David about who wrote "Ozymandias", the argument setting them apart and on a collision course. More could have been done with that.
Some characters appeared to pour out of the writers' blender. Captain Oram (Billy Crudup) looked like an version of Dallas (Tom Skerrit) who is an emotional mess. Transfer the name Dallas to Tennessee (Danny McBride) and you end up with a composite of Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton).
In the end, I wonder what exactly is David's plan, but I'm not interested enough to bring in the next installment. Doctor Lecter in space with the Alien creatures doing the cannibalism schtick by proxy? Fucker can't differentiate between Byron and Shelley, so whatever plan he comes up with will be close enough for government's work I guess...
