Avoid at all costs

Rating: 3/10 (2 April 2017)

The is one of the stupidest sci-fi movies ever made, with a record number of factual errors and plot holes. (The previous record was held by "Gravity.") The first error one occurs within the first few minutes when the space station's robotic arm is used to catch an out-of- control spacecraft hurtling by at a high rate of speed. Sure.
The spacecraft has returned from Mars carrying soil samples that may contain alien life forms. The good news is that the space station has a special isolation lab and a full-time Quarantine Officer. The bad news is that no one on the space station seems to understand those concepts.
The soil does contain a dormant one-cell creature, which proceeds to wake-up and start growing. The cute little alien, which school children back on earth have named "Calvin" and over which everyone on the space station oohs and ahhs, quickly becomes a juvenile delinquent and starts attacking the astronauts. Rather than keep it isolated, the astronauts insist on opening and closing the containment door and then try to kill it with a giant blowtorch. (Open flames on a space station? No problem.) During all of this, no one seems interested in letting the folks on earth know what is going on. When they finally decide to, the radios stop working.
And, the astronauts problems are made worse because the space station is low on fuel, which no one seems to have noticed or cared about until it becomes critical. When the Quarantine Office realizes their decaying orbit may force the space station back to earth, she thinks about it for a moment and with a look of surprise, says, "We won't survive re-entry." In a space station? Really? REALLY?
All of this continues for 90 minutes, with the astronauts making one bad decision after another. Weren't they trained specifically for this mission, and didn't anyone ever think about worst-case scenarios? In any case, the bad decisions continue pretty much until the final frame of the movie. By then, however, who cares?
Avoid this one at all costs. Don't even drive by the theater until it's gone.