Good entertainment but didn't meet expectations and not satisfied.

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2017)

WARNING - potential but SUBTLE spoiler alert at the end of my review. Not explicitly but implicitly. I am not sure it is a spoiler at all, as it is a very general comment under my paragraph "Finally" - but just letting readers know.
I had very high expectations for this film.
First, we have the memory of the whole "Aliens" series, which breakthrough in Sci-Fi/Horror that we need to keep the theme with.
Then, we have the (in my opinion), excellent production values of "Prometheus", to maintain (while Prometheus opened up the opportunity for a sequel-prequel in the series and left many questions unanswered - the overall production and of it was excellent - high quality, not cheap).
Now, we get to Alien Covenant. While it was entertaining - it somehow did not maintain the proper sense of production "eeriness" and timing that had successfully created the very real sense of awe of the new and unknown, anticipation and suspense - that Prometheus did. I thought the timing and the acting in "Covenant" was a bit "clunky" compared to Prometheus. Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, and the other actors in the crew in Prometheus did a truly outstanding job. And while the cast in Covenant was very good, they were not as...effective, and this could have been affected by the script, of course. Something was missing here for me. And, again, the sense of timing of what unfolded was a bit "off" - it just did not flow smoothly, and suspense wasn't created nearly as well. For example, compared to the scene in Prometheus when the 2 scientists were left behind in the ship, due to the storm, and were being tracked on the ship's computer and the captain tells them that something was alive/moving, and then stopped. That little bit there was start and part of excellent suspense, and tied in nicely with the original films where the Alien/s were tracked as "blips" on the screen.
Finally, and most importantly to me - key questions were NOT answered. I wanted good production values AND wanted key questions answered. I wanted to be entertained, held in suspense, scared, cheer, all that, as well as for the story to be more....cerebral if you will, and actually answer questions we all have about the engineers, their evolution, their reasons for doing what they do/did, any communication between engineers and man (their purposed creation/target), more scientific information on the development and evolution of the "virus" that infects the host and becomes various forms of the Xenomorph, etc.... questions unanswered.
What the film DID do, was leave the door open for a sequel.