Disaster with a few glimmers of accidental brilliance

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2017)

If this movie has a single glaring problem, it's that it takes the worst elements of '80s slasher horror and puts them in a couple of scenes. The most unpardonable moment in the film is when the David android thoroughly proves that he/it has a ghoulish fascination with biological weaponry and creating and befriending man-eating organisms, yet one of the characters follows him down a dark corridor alone. Anyone who has an I.Q. over 50 would outright refuse to follow that thing anywhere and/or destroy it immediately and/or call for assistance from the other crew members who were waiting nearby.
There are also scenes in which the David character is very clearly aboard the ship, yet the crew just trusts that he is his "safe" android brother Walt and does not run any sort of test to verify that he is, in fact, Walt. Apparently the ship has enough technology to amplify and project a distorted image that randomly appeared on someone's helmet just by scanning the helmet, yet it can't detect subtle differences between androids. Or the crew is just too lazy to safeguard their lives. Kill me.
In a movie that emphasizes that organisms are mostly interested in their survival and propagation, humanity seems to have little concern about its survival. But if humanity were as dumb as the characters that are in this movie, we probably wouldn't deserve to live anyway.
Katherine Waterston was a revelation to me, though. She injects sexiness, charm and great acting into a film that should have had its script thrown into a bonfire long ago. I'm looking forward to her future roles.