Do not watch if you liked the Alien movies

Rating: 2/10 (29 March 2017)

If you did not like the Alien movies, then this is the movie you so richly deserve.
The movie starts very promisingly, and quickly devolves into melodrama and mayhem. A key character takes an "executive decision", and pretty much leaves the audience bereft. This also has the effect of leaving the rest of the space team unhinged, which explains the terrible decisions they take throughout the rest of the movie.
Honestly, a bunch of Boy Scouts would have handled the crisis better - said crisis consisting of an alien life-form, nicknamed Calvin, that turns out to be far less cute than the name suggests. Calvin is a bad boy who wants nothing more than to...I'm not sure, since Calvin's motivations are not spelled out here, other than to perhaps create chaos. When the strongest emotional point in a movie is the death of a white rat, you know the movie has unsolvable issues.
Calvin suffers from a bad case of CGI-itis, glaringly obvious in many scenes. The movie cast suffers from a lousy script, bad writing, and a clear aversion to actual acting. The movie in general has a strong disinclination to be nothing more than a poor rip-off of Alien and Gravity.