Its not a
bad
film, but I think it can be viewed as sort of the The Force Awakens of its particular franchisea tightly made, decently executed (except for that awful Ian Holm CGI) entry that clearly shows a lot of reverence towards its franchises foundational installments, but lacks its own clarity of vision and suffers from being thematically muddy and relying too heavily on fan-pleasing nostalgic references to its predecessors.
Prometheus and Covenant, for all their many,
many
flaws, at least have the benefit of exploring some kind of theme that is clearly the vision of the filmmaker, which puts them closer to the first two films than Romulus achieves, in my judgment.
Show me your might! Give me your best shot!
You call this a fight?
I said your best shot!