Not the best, not as bad as people claim

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2017)

OK first things first. This is a science FICTION movie. So those who bash this movie for being unscientific at times obviously should avoid movies that involve aliens. Never in the history of mankind have their been documented cases of other intelligent life forms, therefor the writers have the choice to make the alien, the plot and the script however they want it in consideration to the alien life form. Also, do people really expect going to the movies to see a film with aliens in it and expect it to be scientifically accurate? Really? I guess i'm just weird.. Anyway the science was not 100% accurate and I never expected it to be.
Let's move on to the script. For me I was not expecting a deep story with complex characters in a movie like this. In fact what i got was more then I had hoped for. The story centers on a crew on the international space station. They receive soil from mars and upon exploring it they find a single cell organism that is hibernating. They mess with the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels and awaken this organism. The organism begins to grow and they later find out the "alien" is hostile. You don't have to wait long for the movie to start properly and the beginning is quite fast paced and only gives you a little information about each character. For that reason the connection towards each crew member is limited but I still felt they did a decent job with it, since the movie was more about the action on the space station. The crew trying to figure out a way to kill the alien, rescue each other and most of all making sure the alien never reaches earth.
Now the movie is far from being perfect, it has its flaws. The story could have been better but I never felt it was bad since the action made up for it in my opinion. The acting was good with the material they had.
The biggest reason I see that people have a problem with the movie is how scientifically incorrect the movie is. And i'd like to mention the issues I have read now.
1. Alien survived being burnt and the vacuum of space.
To those people who felt that was so horrible i'd like to introduce you to the magnificent microscopic TARDIGRADE! Tardigrades are microscopic animals that live here on earth. They can survive in any environment including inside volcano's and boiling water. They can also survive in temperatures near absolute zero. AND YES.. they can live in the vacuum of space for 10 days and even more. There are over 1000 species of Tardigrades in the world and more are discovered every year. So if we have a animal here on earth that can do all that... it's not so impossible that an alien in a science fiction movie can do it to right?
2. "It needs oxygen, and then doesn't need oxygen, and then needs it again. Decide if the alien needs oxygen!"
I feel these people just didn't watch the movie. From the moment they found the alien they said. It lives on oxygen and water like us. OK fair. Upon learning more about it they said. He can STORE oxygen for some period of time and survive on that. All through the movie they mention this. When the alien is locked outside they say that he can't stay out there forever.. that's why the alien was trying to get back in to the space station. When the alien was holding the oxygen candle. It was because the oxygen was being depleted from the space station. Which means the aliens oxygen was being depleted. That's why it followed the oxygen candles. People just trying to find something to bitch about.
3. Crew members make stupid decisions all the time.
People need to understand that very likely there is no protocol for this scenario. They just picked up some soil from mars with a single cell organism that was in hibernation. I doubt they have had any training if this situation comes up that an alien with super intelligence starts killing everybody on the space station. An alien nobody has ever seen before. Also the human factor. It is very understandable that the captain can not risk saving one person if there is a possibility he is putting everybody else at risk. This we all know. It is also understandable that someone on the crew might not follow orders to try and save a friend from dying. Like when Rory tried saving Hugh by going into the quarantine room when he had been ordered to no go in. Now in many movies characters do stupid things all the time and I myself ask why on earth did he not do that instead, its so obvious. But I never thought that in this movie cause the situations they were in is not something we can put relate to in any way. Also the decisions were not that stupid to begin with I think.
I can't write more, there is a limit on the words. Basically if people are going to see a movie with aliens in it you can't expect it to be 100% accurate when it comes to science. If you expect that from a science fiction movie, then who is the idiot. The people making the movie.. or you?