Gave it an extra star for the CGI

Rating: 2/10 (6 February 2018)

There was a time in the movie when I started laughing, and not like giggling or smiling, started laughing so damn loud that someone could have thought I was watching a comedy.
This movie is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who likes sci-fi. I don't understand why Jake and Ryan even signed this film. Take those two out of the movie and you do not get a single reason to watch it. The story is just too cliche but that's not even the main problem with the movie because the same stories can be retold in different manners. And in sci-fi genre it's quite a common phenomena to use common features from past works. But Life, no, no, no. This is an old story, told in an even more old way with just some new beautiful CGI.
My biggest gripe with most poorly written Sci-fi is that the writers, usually to avoid hard work, proper research, patience and use of imagination, make their characters ridiculously stupid. It makes their work easy. How do I keep the creature contained but then let him enter the ship? Well, let's have one of the brainiest people of earth break the security protocol. Why? Because security is not his department. And you know, astronauts don't give a damn about protocols other than of their own area. How about containing the creature again and then making him reenter the ship. Hey! Why can't another genius from earth do the exact same thing once again? And the biggest of it - let's break down the communications first so everything else in the movie can be easily turned into a complicated situation. And how do we that? Well, the alien who came back to life just a while back and broke free out of his cell an hour back is not only smart enough to understand the whole structure of a giant space ship and the technology behind it, but is also intelligent enough to break it. Check Mate. We are fighting god!! And guess what, an intelligent creature like it doesn't even have its own language, well, because it doesn't need to communicate, it only needs to kill.
For me, the movie died many times. And after a while, finally, instead of caring for any of the stupid scientists or fearing the most intelligent creature of this universe, I just started laughing. This is possibly the worst movie I have seen in a long time. And if not for Jake Gyllenhaal, I would have stopped watching it at least half an hour before its end. And the end! What an end!! The moment they started discussing it, I realised what was going to happen and no, I am not one of those people who can see twists coming from miles ahead. I am one of those who are usually left wondering right unto the last moment.
Well, this one was a huge wastage of time and definitely a movie that I didn't expect to see Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in.