The Blob Meets Alien

Rating: 5/10 (19 June 2017)

This is a movie about the crew of the ISS analyzing Mars samples and discovering they contain life, which quickly grows into a blob- starfish creature that is virtually indestructible.
If you've seen The Blob, where the small little blob get's on someone's hand and eats merrily away until it's bigger, that's your first half of movie. Second half is an Alien like movie with astronauts alternatively running from or hunting the starfish blob as it grows larger and larger.
Unfortunately, this is on the ISS, which has been enhanced and made MUCH bigger than it really is, but the movie still feels like five college kids trying to deal with a badger that got on the school bus. The station is MUCH too small for this type of movie, which is why they set the original Alien on a gigantic space mining ship.
Other reviewers have ripped this movie a new one with all of the plot holes, bad writing, and faulty logic in this one.
Ryan Renolds appears to have wanted ten mins cash and is in the movie for that long it seems, quickly dying off. Unfortunately, his positive, wise-cracking character, who quickly realizes first that studying alien life on a tiny space station is just plain STUUUUpid, but nobody listens, is the highlight of the movie...
Jake G. does his usual bare acting capability and comes across as a PTSD Iraq war medic stuck on the station to keep him away from humans and reduce his VA payments. He is brooding, depressed, moody, and drags the movie down.
The creature is most believable and scary as an infant, and quickly as it grows becomes a badly done cgi mess that is not believable and inconsistent.
A final note, this movie was made several years after a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS declared they had discovered unknown life living on the outside of one of the ISS windows.... yet no mention is made of this, either in the beginning or in the credits. Nice waste of a real-life tie-in!