Good visual effects but very unrealistic characters

Rating: 4/10 (18 November 2019)

I'm not going to talk about the creature itself and how real or unreal it is. It being unrealistic was something I accepted going in and I like to give sci-fi movies a bit of latitude to keep things well... sci-fi.
HOWEVER... the characters left me face-palming all the way through.
Don't you just love how so many of these "important-space-missions-gone-wrong" films seem to involve putting together a group of individuals who seem like they were random people plucked off the street, reality TV show style? Clearly these individuals are *not* well-trained, well-educated, mentally stable people you'd spend billions of dollars on sending into space.
From the trailers you already know this is a show about fail-safes failing to contain a creature. What it doesn't show is how many times these people screw up, and in such unbelievable ways... assuming they are actual astronauts who are also scientists, engineers etc and undergone rigorous training. I also don't buy the "people want to relate to characters, so they should be like the average person" argument here, as this setting is not the time and place for that nonsense.
SPOILERS (but I honestly feel you're better off reading these and save yourself a couple hours)

The thing is growing pretty freaking fast... so let's just keep feeding it more and more!
You're dealing with an unknown creature growing rapidly with unknown capabilities, so the only containment between you and it is a rubber glove. Great.
The housing for said creature has zero fail safes to destroy it (ex. incinerate) if things get out of hand... OR there was one but the characters just sat there watching it the whole time without doing anything at all.
Quarantine procedures? Hah, i'm emotional and want to open the door anyway.
Guy from above point goes in (with zero protection), picks up a mini-flamethrower, and starts going at it like he's trying to light up a forest.
What kind of bio/chem lab built for testing unknown space viruses and organisms is not completely isolated and air-tight? This one apparently. With pipes openly leading into the the rest of the space station, and just a single door to get in (no second door or airlock mechanism for quarantine/de-contamination). Oh and of course the housing for the creature didn't have this mechanism either for putting things in and taking them out.
When the creature breaks out of the lab the characters have no idea where it is and instead of being on the alert and securing themselves they go about repairing other things on the space station as if the creature weren't even loose. I guess this is a great way to slowly kill off characters if that was the goal.
When trying to isolate themselves from the creature they started duct-taping spaces between wall panels. Um... this creature can crush a human and almost break apart metal. Have these guys been paying attention at all? Also they don't seem to have any systematic means of slowly closing off airlocks to isolate the creature away from them... the film just shows them seemingly randomly closing doors. Oh obviously this is why the creature ends up showing up in the one room they were trying to isolate themselves in.
What seems like less than an hour after they call for help, a Soyuz capsulte shows up (super unrealistic... but whatever, given everything else, I was ok with this) and attempts to push the space station away from Earth to contain the threat. Of course, another guy has to become irrational and with zero idea where the creature is, open the Soyuz capsule door and let the creature into it killing the people in it.
Creature makes it to Earth in an escape pod that was meant to go into deep space. People come by and clearly see the creature inside. What is their first instinct? Try to open the door ASAP to let it out of course! The end.

Ok that's enough, you get the idea. This became painful to sit through, leavining me cringing all the way through as the dumbest things kept happening one after another. Thankfully I watched this on Netflix so I could skip ahead. The only reason this gets some stars is I thought the visual effects were well done.