Worth a Watch, Few Qualms

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2017)

The deadly extraterrestrial franchise has been capitalised heavily since the introduction of CGI. However this has a tendency to come with low risk plots that involve some sort of deux ex machina.
Life on the other hand shows a struggle for survival, the kind that you would find in the Alien franchise. The physiology of the creature in this movie is unique enough to satisfy the curiosity felt as we see the story develop, a welcome change.
I liked the movie as a whole but I feel it sins in a few places. *SPOILER*****SPOILER*****SPOILER*****SPOILER*****SPOILER*****SPOILER * At 34:30 we see the creature devour a rat in seconds, after this Deadpool, erm I mean Ryan Reynolds steps in to rescue his buddy. This was impulsive a trait astronauts are not known for.
The creature wraps itself around him at 34:57. Now seeing the attack on Ariyon Bakare who plays Hugh Derry and what he was doing to it at the time it would have been more reasonable for Rory to not try to hurt it. After all it attacked the rat which was a much harder target to get to than Hugh. (They did not try to contact mission control yet)
Rory could also have used the flame-thrower to defend him while he escaped the room.
The contingency plan put in place if there were a breach had a rocket propel the ISS into deep space. This ended up pushing the ISS into the atmosphere due to 'fucked up thrusting'. This doesn't make much sense. If they were going to push them into deep space why would they fire the rockets retrograde? If they couldn't use this docked rocket to turn the ISS then they could have waited an hour or two and the ISS would be pointed in a different relative direction.
I have a few others but they're really just me being nit picky. This film is in my top 20 Sci-fi films, I hope you enjoyed it too.