Not very good

Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2017)

I knew going in that this movie has its problems. I didn't realize how bad they are.
Good Things:

Nice visuals and scenery: The spaceships look realistic and contribute to the confined space needed for parts of the movie. The planet scenes are appropriately alien with some nice touches.

Interesting story line for the next movie: While the main story is hokey the backstory developed for the original "Alien" is engaging.

Good protagonist (mostly): The main protagonist emerges as the movie unfolds and is someone you can root for (mostly).

Fassbender: It's just fun to watch him perform his craft and this movie is no exception.

Bad Things:

Predictable: Just about every major and minor plot point, surprise, action, etc. is completely predictable. The plot itself moves in a very obvious direction but just to kill any suspense there's way too much extremely overdone foreshadowing. The movie is just boring. I actually considering cutting my losses and leaving since it's too clear what's going to happen.

Stupid, stupid characters: The characters repeatedly do stupid things which are essential for the plot to move forward or for them to die. It's not long before you just don't care what happens to most of them. They also seem incredibly poorly suited to space exploration or being part of a crew.

Backward Technology: For the future the technology has some remarkably archaic features like "automated" systems that only remind the crew to do something instead of just doing it. If you've got a technical background you can amuse yourself by making fun of the movie.

Poor plot: Besides the stupid characters, the plot requires events and coincidences that strain credibility. The main plot seems to awkwardly unfold just to get to the "Alien" backstory.

I could go on but I suspect you get the point. In summary, this movie was two hours of my life I'm not going to get back.