Continues the origin story and thereby puts the final nail in the coffin of the Alien franchise

Rating: 3/10 (11 August 2017)

Despite what many people say, this movie does tie in directly to the story line established by the movie Prometheus, and in my opinion, that is definitely not a good thing.
It has horrible pacing and editing problems, likely due to frantic efforts to keep the runtime within certain bounds specified by studio execs. So, as is the case with most other Scott films nowadays, waiting for the extended director's cut to come out could be advised in order to form one's final verdict of the film. However, in this case, I doubt even a director's cut can save this one from mediocrity.
While visually still reasonably on point, unless the director's cut will be dramatically different from this current cut, Scott seems to have lost his ability to establish characters, to build up tension, and to move a story forward in a coherent, plausible and compelling way.
Enough has been said by others regarding the decisions made by the crew so there's no need to mention it, and anyone but the biggest of dolts can see the 'twist' near the end of the film coming from miles away, even though it's obviously meant to "oh no!" the audience.
However, for me, the worst sin by far is that by insisting on this origin story, Scott has completely demystified the alien creature, something which we've already seen established briefly in Prometheus, but which now has been debased even further by making the fearsome creature just an experimental creation of David, the human built android. By removing the mystery out of the alien creature and by essentially linking its origins back to earth, along with the mystery and awe, any tension is also immediately removed, and it just become another biological weapon, albeit a more exotic one than usual.
Of course, one could argue that the creature has already become trite after countless rehashes of basically the same story in different environments on various mediums, and I would agree, after Aliens, it's been nothing but terrible, but leave it to studio execs to keep milking it even though it has long since dried up.