Kind of generic...

Rating: 5/10 (14 July 2017)

It was.....OK. Visually it was cool, and I think it had some good performances. But the writing.....eh. Ultimately, I don't think they really knew what to do with the alien. Despite many times saying it needed oxygen to live, it seemed to survive several minutes out in space. It seemed to survive any temperature/atmosphere as well as being directly burned. It apparently feeds of humans and yet somehow can also survive by eating cooling fluid? I mean, what exactly are its properties? Instead of establishing something, it just seems that they would throw something else in there to drive the plot forward at that current moment. And the characters weren't very fleshed out. They had very generic personalities and nothing that made them stand out. Plus, you have to wonder why they didn't follow the protocols in place. Or at least use some common sense. I mean earlier in the film Ryan Reynold's character tells the scientist guy off for getting too close to the alien and treating it like a buddy by saying that for all we know it could be "anthrax" and yet later, goes into the room without any suit on to kill it. And there's just a lot dumb moments like that in there. I certainly don't think its the worst thing I ever seen in the world. And I wasn't ever really bored watching it. It did have a good concept, and there were some moments that were cool, but overall just didn't leave a good impression.