Best Alien movie since the original.

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2017)

I was already aware of a wave of negative reactions prior to watching Alien Covenant, but as an Alien fanboy, I decided not to let other people's decisions influence me. If the movie was going to be a mess like Prometheus, I would come to that conclusion myself without outside influence.
I ended up LOVING the movie, although I have to say that it is not blind love, and I do actually completely agree with many of the criticisms directed toward it.
Like Prometheus, it suffers from some nonsensical decision making on the part of the crew, and like Prometheus you won't leave feeling you got all your satisfactory answers.
On the other hand though, you've got an amazingly beautiful movie with great new creatures, extremely gory bursting effects and great coupling of visuals, literary/religious undertones and audio. I think many people fail to recognize the pure ART of some of these scenes. Fassbender's two androids are particularly noteworthy.
This is why I, despite some glaring flaws, still give the movie a 10/10. It made me fall in love with the Alien franchise anew, and I still feel somewhat dazed even a week after I saw it.