Really big let down

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2017)

I was very disappointed in alien covenant, as a big fan of prometheus i really had high hope for this movie.
The movie didn't come close to answering any of the questions about the engineers, about their civilization and their relationship to us and to the xenomorph. we don't get any insight or any answers. The only answer we do get is that David killed them, but we don't even get a reason why he killed them in the movie.
Its like the whole plot got sidelines to make way for a dumb crew what suddenly thinks its a good idea to go to a planet they receive a signal from, the planet happens to be in the goldilocks zone (habitable) yet they never mapped this place before. The decisions the crew make just get dumber and dumber and i feel ridley scott has listen to criticism of prometheus too much, and tried to make the action and gore that people wanted, but in doing this, he's lost the sole of the story and the plot was very basic and unsatisfying.
The visuals are great, and the one saving grace from the movie is David, he's a really good villain and the ending was good, although very predictable. But after watching the movie, i feel like i've just watched a side episode of the real story, were pretty much in the same boat as we were when we finished watching prometheus, we still don't know who the engineers really were, we know nothing about their civilization, other than some ruins, we know nothing about our relationship to them, their relationship to the xenomorphs, or where we all came from and our purpose.
The third movie is really left with a lot of ground to cover for this to be a successful and insightful franchise.