Looked Slick But Turned Out To Be No 'Alien'

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2007)

Once I started watching, In some respects, this film started to remind me of "Alien," except it obviously wound up quite a bit inferior to that famous sci-fi-horror thriller.
Since it was made about 18 years after "Alien," this movie features more special-effects and some high-tech visuals but it doesn't have the suspense nor the overall cinematography nor the cohesive storyline of the latter. Both movies have the same crude, profane, low-class astronauts that you would never see in real life. In this film, the characters are not quite as hard-edged.
Slick-looking as this in spots, it still succumbs to a problem prevalent in modern-day action movies: too much action, especially at the end of the film. Also, there is too much gore and too many unbelievable escapes.
In the end, this is another of those movies that "should have been better."