Too Rushed - film needed to bridge gap between "Prometheus" and "Covenant"

Rating: 6/10 (14 May 2017)

I think the problem with this movie is that much of it is rushed and feels like it was two separate films forced into one. Ridley Scott shouldn't have overhauled the story so much so that the engineers, and Elizabeth Shaw, were killed off so unceremoniously. There is so much confusion as to why David released the black goo substance on the engineer homeward (or was it?) so ruthlessly, what he learned about them (from the prologue trailer), how Shaw died and what exactly David done with her, why this supposedly advanced race of beings were killed off so easily (thats if they were actually engineers or a sub-species created by them)....etc. There needs to be a film which bridges the gap between "Prometheus" and "Covenant", because David explaining briefly over a few minutes just isn't enough. Although the film overall was decent, the best part was the flashback to the scene where the croissant-shaped entered the planets atmosphere and unleashed the black goo on the native population. Ridley is making a big mistake if the engineers don't have a bigger part to play in a future film as the series progresses, or whether there will be a film between "Covenant" and "Prometheus" - you cant just leave it like what Covenant currently has. How was the black goo even manufactured?