I watched it last night and couldn't disagree more.

Aesthetically, you're correct, it looked amazing. There were clear influences from Alien Isolation too. And there were some interesting ideas with the aliens. But the film explicitly relies on the characters being idiots, and I mean being idiots and not just lacking in information. The film relies on positive reception with "winks and nods to the other films"..... what are these "winks and nods"? Blatant line repetition or scene replication. Because you liked those scenes in the other films, yeah? So you'll like those scenes done all over again but worse, right?

And then there's the contrivances. I know a contrived plot is generally a given for just about any horror, but this was a little too much. Between a door conveniently being too strong for young adults to smash but weak enough for handful of facehuggers to smash with ease (but later glass doors being too strong), and an elevator on a space station designed with a counter-weight system, it was just too much for me. Just silly little contrivances over and over and over.

Oh, and the rhythm of the plot? Do you want the second half of Covenant again, which was the second half of the original Aliens but worse? Congrats, you can have that yet again.

Honest to god, I would rather watch Alien Resurrection again. Because for as bad as that movie is, it's at least entertaining. Hell, I'll take Prometheus and Covenant over this.

If I wanted to watch the old scenes, I'd watch the originals films they're from. Not this film that does them again but worse. Is it without bad scenes? No, there were some good scenes, but they were few and far between.