minor shades of Alien

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2017)

Sho Murakami (Hiroyuki Sanada), Rory Adams (Ryan Reynolds), Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson), David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal), Ekaterina Golovkina (Olga Dihovichnaya), and Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) are six astronauts aboard the international space station orbiting the Earth. They manage to catch the capsule from Mars containing life from the red planet. Derry is able to reanimate the dormant single organism. It grows into a danger to the station and Earth itself.
There are moments of over-reaching while the best of this movie is reminiscent of the classic horror Alien with a good dose of Gravity. It's definitely not quite at those levels. The small alien has a cool look but it could never shakes its CGI construction. The bigger alien has some crawlies goodness. The movie starts with manufactured action that seems overblown in hindsight. The initial experiments is stretching the tension too much and it becomes unreal. There are some poor decisions that go too far. Nevertheless, this creature feature has some good creeps and I like the way the creature attacks. Crushing is not the usual method in a horror and this does it well.