Poor Man's Alien

Rating: 4/10 (31 March 2017)

I assume that the rating of 7 in IMDb is for "comedy" content because the movie suffers from a major credibility deficit. Spoiler Alert Having been around aviation for decades and personally knowing an ISS Astronaut I can guarantee you that the agencies involved with the ISS would not send such a bunch of under-qualified, over-emotional, dumb asses like this crew anywhere near the ISS. Real life Astronauts are the brightest of the bright whereas the "crew" in this movie are anything but! So many holes and gaps in the plot I do not have enough room here to list them all. Suffice it to say this is a poorly put together movie. The Ryan Reynolds character Rory Adams would not have made it passed the first psych eval and obviously is not smart enough to follow protocols. Deserved to die! The character Hugh Derry played by Bakara was just not a clever man given he was supposed to be a crack biologist! Not professional in any way. Deserved to die! David Jordan/Jake Gyllenhaal is another emotional cripple and would have been weeded out of the Astronaut program in real life very early on. Neither of the women are strong characters which the exact opposite of real life women in the space program. In short the movie promised much but delivered very little, especially the ending - they telegraphed that one from a mile back. The movie equivalent of a paint by numbers piece. Those calling it a poor man's Alien are on the money.