In space, no one can hear you scream...this is rubbish!

Rating: 3/10 (4 November 2017)

I gave this a 3/10 simply because it was mildly entertaining, but I'm not sure comedy was the directors aim. A waste of some good acting talent, Ryan Reynolds must have been happy to succumb to the blob early on in a substandard attempt at Alien style shock horror, whilst Jake Gyllenhall & the other fall guys had to do their best to carry the awful script & set pieces to the bitter end.
In many space set films you can forgive the science faux pars & astronauts who should be clever but have about as many brain cells as the moon has pubs, but not this one because it's trying to be serious, suspenseful & a horror. Even the alien seems like he can't be too bothered & hams it up as a cross between an octopus & a sponge bob squarepants audition failure. Although he does learn how to use a sharp object & fly an escape pod rather quickly, he was more funny than fearful.
Mimickery is sometimes the highest form of praise, even the great director of Alien has tried, and failed, to bring back that real foreboding fear of what might be up there,and whilst the ending of this left the door open for Danny Glover to star in part 2, I think most of us have seen enough.