Very divided opinion on whether this movie is good or not

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2017)

Alien: Covenant has many good qualities, a few brilliant qualities and quite a few very bad qualities.
I'll start with the good qualities.
This film fully succeeds in being a horror movie in most cases even though sometimes the movie is tonally unsure if it wants to be an eerie atmospheric sci/fi horror or an action movie. Some scenes in the movie are visually disgusting (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and quite scary, containing a lot of suspense and thrills. The "chase" and action scenes have all of the above qualities. The Alien(s) in general are utilized enjoyably.
Atmosphere is most of the time achieved quite spectacularly. Particularly in the (no spoilers) first encounters, as well as later stages in the movie where suspense should be the primary focus.*(I will insert some bad qualities into this section later)*
Michael Fassbender's character(s) are phenomenally portrayed and he steals the show with each scene. Particularly the ones involving (no spoilers) a flute.
And finally, like almost every one of Scott's movies, the film is beautiful.
Now the bad qualities *(Continuing the suspense topic as well as the tonal confusion)* In the parts where the movie is, as previously mentioned, tonally confused, the movie takes a turn from being a horror movie to an action movie which posts a glaring problem to the story structure of the film as well as the previously mentioned atmospheric qualities.
It makes me sad that most of the characters in this film are as bad as in Prometheus (which I personally found to be a garbage film). The only standout is Fassbender and in some cases Katherine Waterston (only sometimes) even though I really didn't like that the films try to make Daniels Ripley 2.0 because it miserably fails at that.
The rest of the characters are obviously expandable and utterly boring. The only thing that was fun about them was watching them die.
Some things in the story make absolutely NO sense. Like in Prometheus but that film as a whole made no sense. A lot of questions I had about Prometheus are left unanswered, and yes I know "MORE SEQUELS ARE ON THE WAY".
Not only are questions left unanswered but some of the characters in the movie are really just plain stupid. It baffles me that "Professional scientists" go onto an uncharted planet without any form of body protection. There are at least 50 of these types of stupid and un explainable decisions that the characters make. (Splitting up in a unfamiliar place, peeking where peeking shouldn't occur, not isolating what or who should be isolated etc.)
In general the film is a big mess even though I can safely say that I was entertained during a good chunk of the run time .
6/10.