Great Space Scifi. 8/10.

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2017)

Hey ! Just saw this tonight too, I was greatly surprised by this film - I wasn't sure what to expect really;at first I thought it was just going to be about space astronauts sort 'hanging around' and surviving in a soon-derelict space station and finding cellular life - and that's it...but it turned out cooler - it became a sci-fi critter feature/Creature Feature... that life form they find, at first looks so cute/so pretty/so nice and unhostile...but then the film takes a drastic turn and shows the nastiness of Mother Nature..that Martian life form mutates into one a kind creature (like a transparent fleshy translucent-like flower or octopus or sea star...that little 'wraps' around everything and sucks their life-force - until it's clear this thing because a man-eating creature that needs food, oxygen, etc and becomes extremely powerful.... One the most horrible scene is the by Rory (one of the American Astronauts) who gets stuck with the Martian creature and it gets to enter his body by his getting in by his mouth,then it literally kills him from inside - munching him from inside and we see his body float in the dead-space (like when you see astronauts float by lack of gravity)...then we see blood spill from his mouth and it becomes literally a fountain of blood as he dies and 'floats' in this deadly silence while the creature his munching him inside... one of the most scary tense scene. The story is quite rapid and you guessed it surely : Astronauts - in space (whereelse) - who are in a space station (but of course) orbiting over the Earth - and do Astronauty things (right)...not Astro-Naughty things...although they might since some their actions (mostly errors) cost them dearly (but for the most part they never make any errors...it's just this life force as entered in the space station...just like Alien in Alien 1); so as said, they Begin doing experiment son a flagella cell they found on Mars - they reanimate it and Prove that Mars had life... but this little cell Grows Fast into a full huge organisms...until it's the size of a finger...then it starts to look like a translucent jello-ish flower octopus with flapping tentacles-like that extremely stretchy and 'clinging/choking', like tentacles wrapping themselves around anything...this thing wants to 'wrap itself' around the British scientist who handles it - until it does but its power becomes so strong that it can crack bones...so you can understand what happens it literally crushes his hand to bits...and gets to escape out of the containment room... then it becomes an alarm and hysteria as the crew members are terrified and Rory is killed by this same creature...which escapes and 'roams' around the station's ventilation or holes... hiding...like Alien (in Alien 1)...it is an homage to Alien obviously.. It's pretty freaky and the body count rises, that Martian creature is so powerful and unkillable and Extremely Intelligent - it literally can outwit the entire team... Great actors; Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gylenhall, and a few others...all convincing. Characterization is OK, not deepest though but sufficient and since it's a small crew, we get attached to most everyone.
And when someone does die, it is rather scary and 'like a loss for the entire cosmonaut team', you feel like their Doom is impending - they are stuck in space and are less than 10 people... everyone counts... for their survival. The film's ending Surprised me - in a great way - I won't spoil it but it finishes in a Way that is Different and Adds a Realistic Change, to the endings we always see. The film has also a touch of philosophy, ethically and moments of character drama with deep self-questioning.. thus it gets a little deeper. Great Sci-Fi Horror Thriller Space Astronaut 'Scientific' Movie (like the film 'The Martian' a bit by Mr.Scott but with more sci-fi/thrill/horror/biological mutant martian creature in it) - Loved it. 8.5/10.