I liked this movie but it is full of stupid people.

Rating: 6/10 (10 September 2018)

This review might contain spoilers so you have been warned.
This is one of those movies I really like on a cold rainy night. It was for the most part fun but geez it's full of stupid people who are supposed to be the brightest and best minds. Really I kid you not.
So here we go they recover a soil sample from Mars that is on its way to Earth in a capsule, they manage to recover that and analyze the sample to find a single cell life form of some kind but it's in a dormant state and needs reawakening.
Now I can't really complain about that because well that seems like a thing most scientists might consider doing under controlled conditions. Try to revive the organism they found. So I gave them a pass on this.
But later on as it is seen moving and then growing they do dumb things like play with it and pet it.
It's an alien of undetermined origin and possibly very dangerous. Did this thought not occur to these supposed smart people? They could have left it in the box and not played with it and maybe things would have been better, but then we'd have a very boring movie on our hands.
However having said that I wonder how the movie might have played out had they done this and followed Calvin's adventure on Earth and what mayhem he'd cause on the planets surface. That would have perhaps been a tiny bit more interesting then what we got which was great production wise but slightly predictable.
Anyway I had fun with this but your mileage may very. You might like it too or not.