Good production of an unoriginal script

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2020)

This movie, well made and well acted (mostly), was doomed to mediocrity because the script had almost nothing in the way of originality. It's a monster alien movie, which I've seen over and over and over and over again. They've found life on Mars, the biologist falls in love with it (as always), and his obsession (tied to some personal issues that were only marginally explored, as always) leads to the creature getting out and trying to eat everyone (as always). The rest you can probably guess for yourself, as it follows the standard formula of monster alien movies. The one bit of praise I can offer is that at least they didn't include any meathead macho soldier characters. Still, the story was cliche, the characters were not developed at all, the twists and turns were predictable, and the ending was a cheap, poorly explained set up for a sequel, which I doubt will happen.