This movie made me tired

Rating: 4/10 (13 June 2020)

I have no problem with the similarity to Alien and other movies where people have to battle an omnipotent creature. Just because Alien was made doesn't mean that storyline is taboo. It was done before Alien many times and after many times. It will be done over and over because that's one of the reasons one creates a nonhuman entity, to give it seemingly all powerful capability. Alien doesn't own the idea, but I still look for a story well told. This is a lame story told by competent technicians. A pretty, well-made movie with poor writing is just that. I'm a horror fan, a horror fanatic, to the point that I buy into the whole "people in horror stories do stupid things, get over it" conceit, but if you start with astronauts they are supposed to be a wee but intelligent and a wee bit trained. If every single one of them reacts to the admittedly unnerving situation stupidly, even the ones who are watching the story unfold and have time to gather their thoughts, well then you've destroyed too much credibility. It was bad enough that they 1. took so long to rescue the Hugh Derry character or 2. rescued him out of the lab at all, but for every single one of them to blunder so blatantly became tedious. Once Miranda North tried to get back into the air lock, and once they tried to HELP her back in, it was like Why Bother? My other beef is that they never touched on the fact that the alien was only defending itself. They took it from its home planet and started giving it shocks! They never once tried to communicate. I will say that there were some gripping moments during the chase inside the space station. That's not enough.