Promising opening for a movie that fails in the end.

Rating: 1/10 (25 March 2017)

If you've seen Alien, then this movie will seem very familiar. Mars probe returns with Martian life on it and after being prodded, everything goes wrong. Sound familiar? It is, except in this case, the movie utterly fails in the end with a terribly predictable ending. The characters are cookie cutters and just watching you'll know whose going to die. The Japanese Astronaut's wife just had a baby, the American is a cold woman who came up with the firewall protocol, Ryan Reynolds is his usual one dimensional wise cracking self. The Alien itself is quite lovely to begin with and an original design. But everything here is an unoriginal, paint by the numbers movie. There are a few goofs as well such as only intermittently seeing the characters breath when the station goes cold. This could have been a great movie, instead it's a if I never see it or think of it ever again, I'll be fine. The theater I saw it in was empty, and reading some of these reviews, I'm wondering if the critics and viewers saw the same tired movie I did. It did have a few moments of intensity, but these were undermined by the pedestrian story.