The terror of finding LIFE from Mars.

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2017)

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. Picture and sound are great, I have a powered subwoofer in my sound system and this track really shook the room in certain scenes.
I am a scientist and I pay moderate attention to advancements in astronomy. For years there has been a high interest in the question "Is there life elsewhere in the universe"? Just from a 'probability' perspective, with billions of galaxies and each having billions of stars, and untold numbers of stars with planets around them much like our own Solar System, one point of view is that we would have to be very arrogant to believe we Earthlings are the only intelligent life.
The story here involves a six-person crew on the ISS (space station orbiting Earth) receiving an unmanned pod that had gone to Mars and took soil samples. The crew, which included a doctor, were to conduct tests to determine if the soil samples had any component of life.
The production values are superb, the actors are experienced and good. The real star of the story becomes the alien life form that grows from a soil sample. In a contest back on Earth school kids get to name it and this alien life form becomes known as 'Calvin.' Calvin never makes a sound but as "he" grows and develops the crew face bigger and bigger challenges to keep it contained.
We really enjoyed the movie, it makes one think of possible consequences as we get closer and closer to actually doing something like this.
MAJOR SPOILERS: The life form continues to grow and develop, it has to kill for its nourishment, in the end only two remain, they decide to protect Earth by coaxing 'Calvin' into one of the escape pods with one astronaut and he would aim it to deep space, sacrificing himself to protect Earth. The other pod would reenter to Earth after the ISS had been destroyed. 'Calvin' had become so intelligent that 'he' overpowered the astronaut and directed to pod to re enter to Earth and as the movie ends we see some Asian fishermen coming to his rescue, opening the hatch. Will 'Calvin' and his progeny take over the Earth?