It's a two and a half hour long fan-edit of both of Ridley Scott's disappointments: 'Prometheus' and 'Covenant'. The first one tapped into the 'Ancient Aliens' hype as peddled by the History Channel and the second doubled down on this cringe, driving a stake through the Aliens franchise altogether.
The fan-edit is a more clinical/documentary style adaptation of the available footage (including bonus material). It follows the synthetic 'David' and explores his motivations and character arc more fully. It removes much of the cringe, but does not manage to excise all the Hollywoke stupidity. E.g. the study of micro-organisms was apparently never developed in this universe, explaining the complete and absolute stupidity of the characters in removing their protective suits in a xeno-biological environment or never bothering to put them on in the first place (as is the case in the second movie).
It was definitely a good attempt and it even gave off vibes of the original 'Alien' movie, but it also had a lot of smaller narrative plot holes. But all things considered, it was still better than the original.
Yeah both of the AVP films end up being pretty decent despite some wokeness and dumb shit beginning to creep in.
Personally I wished someone competent handled a few Predators hunting Aliens and totally remove the human element...or minimizes it. The concept is awesome but they always screw it up by focusing on some sob stories to fill in space because they can't figure out how to make two alien species interacting interesting.
Interesting point. I like the whole human focus personally, but it would be interesting just for variety to see more focus on the Predator/s as the main focus. They're badass enough to make it work, as a mostly silent protagonist style thing.