2:00 AM review. Second draft.

Rating: 3/10 (2 April 2017)

It's an aggravating watch.
Visually it looked clean, nothing spectacular, nothing unique about direction. It didn't give away the entire plot by means of the trailer. I thought the trailer made the film much better than it was.
Unfortunately, the film assumes moviegoers have never seen a film about humans who travel to space and discover extraterrestrial life. AKA "the disaster in space movie with aliens" with: established quarantines, protocols, space suits, evacuation procedures, ship designs, etc. It doesn't raise the bar form other films in the genre, it lowers it. It could have been a novel-ish story. Instead, the plot was driven by characters who were blissfully unprepared and glaringly incompetent. As in, "There is no way in hell anyone could send you to space" incompetent.
At least the captain wasn't incinerated by their life support pod in the first five minutes of the film. I mean that'd be tantamount to somebody engineering an airbag to deploy under your car seat in an accident. Kerrr-plunk! But, really that's what this movie was - being stuck in a car with a driver on the verge of a catastrophic accident.
"I don't NEED turn signals."
"I don't HAVE to speed up to merge onto the highway. "
"I only listen to AM radio."
"I don't HAVE to get the money out for the toll yet, Hey what's up! How are you today? Hold on..."
"I turn the steering wheel at dead stops."
"I coast up hills."
That's what this movie is.