Good and some

Rating: 7/10 (19 March 2018)

The movie is enjoyable and the action scenes produce thrill, which is what alien movies are supposed to do. In addition, Fassbender provides a remarkable performance. Somehow he is capable of delivering characters that are simultaneously robots and humans. Waterstone also played well her character, although she might be overshadowed by Fassbender. The rest of the cast and characters are rather forgettable.
The movie does a good job showing, just as in Aliens, that the male captain believes to have control, but once such belief is proved wrong his only response is shock. In contrast, the female lead is not about control, but rather her sense of mission or duty that prevails and allows her to continue goal without any shocks. As mentioned before, that is very similar to Aliens and is a very interesting comment on the status of leaders with a vacuum sense of control and power. In addition, it is always interesting seeing a horror movie that enters the subjects of god, creation, destruction and insanity.
However, the movie has a few problems. Other than the leads, the characters are rather forgettable. In fact, the colonists seem very naive, going to a new planet without major protections for all the risks that such exploration entails. They looked like lambs, which is a problem since an alien is not scary because it can kill a lamb, but because it can kill a very well prepared human being.
More problematic to me seems the idea that the good guys are utterly silly while the villains have skills that change at convenience. It is always a problem in alien movies. Hell, even Alien 3 was made using a lame excuse about how the aliens survived anyways. Something similar can be said about the non-alien villains and their actions.
In synthesis, you have a fun good movie, but not a memorable or convincing one. Therefore. It is a one-time movie.