Betrayal seems to be the bitter reason behind bad reviews

Rating: 7/10 (3 July 2017)

I had heard all of the harsh remarks, poor reviews and comments meant to convey a level of ineptness and poor screen writing, and thus expected a debacle of a film.
Yet that is not what I saw.
I know what happened to cause people to be bitter towards the film as unlike them, I expected a bad film, based on their views and went in with, as they did, a preconceived notion of how bad things would be.
The 1st betrayal to people's preconceived notions were the movie was NOT a continuation of Prometheus, but rather a 2nd movie that skipped what most expected as the second content. People expected there to be a traveling to the creator's world, conflict, etc, all around the race of giant humanoids. Instead the were sold the aftermath.
The second betrayal was David. David had been on a nefarious path and, towards the end, saw the folly of that path and it was implied, he understood the error of his ways. Yet here we are and he is an insane robot, with plans of Godhood and a desire to wipe out the human race with his genetic manipulation of the creator's "weapon".
If you can get past the fact you BOUGHT a bill of goods, based on your OWN notion of what the next movie was to be about, you will find the movie is well done. Terrific scenery, a great TWIST on the entire Alien franchise and a bit of bitterness at accepting his direction with the 1st movie, while crying about his following it with the second.
I enjoy the movie as I expected a bad film. I also expected our heroine to be raining hell on top of the giant creators and had I gone in on release day, with that in mind, i also would have been displeased...But that displeasure would be MINE and not that of a bad film. We "expect" X and get Z, and cry about it?
Yes, there could have been a movie between 1 and 2, but money may not have allowed for the 3rd. So, instead, we get the summary of what happened, quite a few holes and a whole NEW path for the Alien franchise to continue on