Excellent

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2017)

I thought the film was well thought out. I read a few of the bad reviews, and the people writing them didn't think before they wrote. The ship Prometheus was lost. The crew of the covenant had no idea the danger they were in when they sat down on the planet. They had the technology to see that the new planet was good.
Spoiler: The new capt was clearly out of his element. He made a mistake. If you have ever had pressure put on you to make decisions, then you know what he was going through. When the pressure is on you want it off, and this new planet was his way to get the pressure of this massive responsibility off his back quickly.
Ridley blew the door completely of the hinges for follow up films. Some of the reviews I read talk about making the scientists smarter. What would you do if you were faced with the unimaginable terror of a foe that cant be defeated? Some of the crew lost loved ones. Imagine the thought of taking the chance of going into space to colonize a planet and you lose your partner. You wouldn't be thinking clearly, and just because your a scientist doesn't mean your trained as a soldier.
I personally loved the film. Its hard from me to watch when the characters are so helpless, and that's what these films do. Fassbender is great actor. The scene with the recorder almost made me forget I was watching an alien movie.