I enjoyed it but in terms of realism...

Rating: 4/10 (21 June 2017)

I mean, this is a good watch... provided you don't think into any of the science of it or think into any of the stupid decisions the crew make. I don't have enough fingers to count the number of opportunities I saw to contain or expel the tentacle monster that the supposedly professional crew didn't. For a start they could have just cut their losses and not opened the door to the lab that had a rapidly growing tentacle monster inside it but then they go on to use a flamethrower?! I don't imagine that's safe on a space station, not to mention the fact that it burns through oxygen. It really seemed like the American characters made some of the most horrendous decisions that had me almost shouting at the screen like wanting to let the woman with a killer octopus latched onto her leg back into the station - is the director trying to make a point about Americans. There were so many chances for the crew to sacrifice one of them to eliminate the creature but instead they take stupid risk after stupid risk ultimately resulting in them all dying. How does this creature even exist on Mars though? There's almost no oxygen in the Martian atmosphere - even in a dormant state. To top off the stupidity of it all, at the end, they manage to send the lifeboats the wrong ways and the people on Earth proceed to see an injured man and a space octopus in the capsule and open it anyway?! But other than the stupidity breaking the immersion of the film it was pretty tense and even exciting at some points, poor plot wise though.