Life and death in space a fun ride

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2017)

OK we all know it was a bit of a borrow from Alien. But The Hunger Games did well doing a makeover to the brilliant Battle Royale so sometimes this thing works.
An international space station built to receive samples of soil from Mars and it's 6 crew start the show rather over dramatically having to capture the probe sent from Mars. A bit daft but the cast was good and were fleshed out a bit to be rather likable.
The Biologist finds a single celled organism and the world now knows for certain what has been obvious to anyone with half a bit of sense that we are not alone in the Universe.
Of course anyone who has seen science fiction will know that it can't be happily concluded and all Hell will break out soon enough.
One thing we do know from Movies is Earth sends some silly people into space in the future. Ridley Scott's disaster of an Alien Prequel Part 1 & 2 a perfect example. And this space station is no different but the story is good moving at a reasonably fast pace with some stirring set pieces and a damn fine conclusion.
Obviously as the organism grows and shows signs of intelligence we only need someone to make a mistake and soon enough a pressure outage makes the organism become dormant. After living dormant on Mars for who knows how long it should have been a guess it was a pretty hardy little critter. But the crew must have missed Alien and use electricity to stimulate it. Big Mistake.
Anyway after an Alien like series of set pieces that were pretty good they resolve the problem. Or Maybe they don't. I won't spoil it.
A cracking twist ending and a pretty solid piece of Sci Fi. Of course people did silly things but if they did everything professionally we would not have a story. And after the disappointment of watching Alien: Covenant I enjoyed this piece of hokum.
I give it 8#