Just no

Rating: 1/10 (22 June 2017)

Spoilers...
I can't stop thinking about this film, and not in a good way. When will Hollywood realise that not everyone is a complete moron and the days of 90s and naughties style Hollywood science are long gone?
There are too many logical holes in this movie, it was ruined for me the second the returning probe was "caught" but I carried on. Here are some of the worst pieces of ridiculous, laughably unrealistic nonsense seen regarding just a single aspect of the movie.
1. Communications.
They're on the ISS in orbit around the earth however for some reason "the transmitter" breaks. They have a single comms system up there? Yeah, not buying it. They will likely have multiple main and backup comms systems up there using a bunch of technologies and probably some systems that could be used (escape pods) assuming the absolute worst happened. They have high speed Internet up there! They could literally Skype NASA, or bounce a signal off a satellite. Or a sat phone? I'll bet they have dozens of steerable dishes and transmitters/ receivers to pick up and blast out signals across a massive spectrum. Comms will be so utterly critical I'm sure the ISS could be blown to pieces and on fire and they could still find a way to phone home.
Astronauts have their days scheduled out, I wouldn't be surprised if they literally had to wait for a p*** break inbetween carrying out set tasks. Therefore to not hear ANYTHING from NASA or anyone else is utterly ridiculous on a normal day. During one of the greatest moments of mankind you probably wouldn't be able to shut them up and the astronauts themselves would be on a VERY short leash, giving feedback and waiting for instructions from rooms full of expects. The casual "hmm, we seem to have accidentally killed the alien life form... Electrocute it?" "I guess, go for it". Is just hopelessly ridiculous.
Why does it seem logical that these scientists (and one in particular) just get left to it? It would have been more realistic if this had been set on Mars where transmission delay could have been used for some plot based fun or multiple critical comms failures would have been a little more plausible and the distance and journey time could explain why they're acting like idiots the whole time.
The "coolant" leaks from the transmitter rendering it useless (thanks alien). I work in broadcast so I can tell you on earth the only coolant needed to push a signal up to a sat is a couple of (redundant) ac units to keep the (redundant) amps at a reasonable temperature. We've been sending date via satellites for a while now, we've got it down its not that big a deal. Seen how small sat phones are now? We certainly don't need to cool amps down which are in orbit. Coolant needed to cool stuff below absolute zero? You sure about that? It's cold outside, how about some heatsinks? (assuming the Hollywood science was even vaguely legit). In fact the kit in satellites need to be kept above absolute zero as it is bad for components to get that cold. It would have been more plausible if they'd said "ah no! The heaters in the transmitter have gone down! We're so boned!" Not that that's too realistic either...
Just don't watch this piece of garbage.