Watchable

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2017)

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) study a one-celled organism from MARS named Calvin. All seems harmless enough until one astronaut decides to wake it up using electricity. Well, that angers Calvin and things go from bad to worse. How would you feel if someone prodded you with a touch of electricity?
This was okay and maybe not as good as some previous space movies. The sets within this ISS are visually good. and we liked seeing everyone glide around in zero gravity. The dialogues are low key and one must listen carefully. The music was also low key and didn't make its presence known hardly at all. This could have used more pictures of space, in general, showing the earth from time to time. But wait, Calvin has escaped and there's no time for any of that You would think there would be a lot of tension not knowing where Calvin was at any given moment, but that was not the case here. Concern yes, but no real tension. Here the music could have played a more important role. Didn't happen.
It is decided to kill Calvin and not let it get to Earth and destroy civilization. The belief is that this creature was the cause of all devastation on MARS. Well, killing Calvin is easier said than done. This Calvin creature is one smart organism, which, by the way, has now grown quite a bit. (This can't be good.)
Now to be fair doing a movie within really tight quarters is hard and this was done in very good fashion. Maybe this had a bearing on everything as it wasn't Star Trek where everyone has a lot of space to move about. The Editing was excellent. There were a few feeble attempts at humor that went nowhere.
One thing did surprise me: No one suggested they try to communicate with Calvin. Hmmmm
There is nothing scary in here once you get used to Calvin and the CGI is nothing but spectacular. So the rest of the movie has astronauts trying to kill Calvin to insure it doesn't get to Earth.
Notable: Ryan Reynolds as Rory and he was the first to try and kill Calvin.
No one stands out as the main guy until near the end when David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) get together and decide how to handle Calvin. And even then it's all even-handed, okay still low key.
All In all this is slow-going but watchable. The ending will surprise you as it did me. (5/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes.