Did you watch Alien and Aliens? Did you like Alien? This movie felt more like Alien. My wife isn't a big Alien fan. She's watched Alien and Aliens because those are the ones I've watched the most. But she didn't even know the aliens are called Xenomorphs. She still gave it a 9/10. They had a lot of references to the first two movies because this movie takes place between Alien and Aliens, but I thought they did a good job explaining all the basic lore, the facehuggers, chestburtsters, acid blood, etc. The time the movie takes place in, lore wise, they are just learning about the xenomorphs.
Side note: I thought they did an exceptional job of explaining the story of why they were going to that ship in the first place. The depression and hopelessness of the mining colony was well done. I was curious how they would explain these bum ass miners getting into the top secret Weyland intel ship.