Too unrealistic

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2013)

As biochemical engineer I think this film is very very far from reality.

Just in the beginning the alien drinks the black fluid - their biological weapon - they show us magnified what happens on DNA scale; it cuts DNA into small fragments, but the black fluid is just a black fog with that magnification too... (So it does not consist of molecules like any other material.) After that the alien simply disintegrates, but it does not release any gas, its material just disappears...

In another scene the same black fluid forms multicellular organisms: snake like creatures from the soil which kill two scientists... (They could not decide whether it should cut or build DNA or what?) In that scene a small amount of the snake blood completely resolved a space suit - in a few seconds - which was sandstorm resistant in another scene ... (So fast and corrosive chemical reaction is simply not possible by that conditions.)

After that one drop of the black fluid makes zombie from another scientist and forms an octopus like creature in the uterus of a woman he had sex with... After that the woman had a very fast surgery in an automatic surgery chamber which took the octopus out of her. After that the woman can walk, run, jump easily like nothing would have happened... (Ask somebody who had a similar surgery...) After that the octopus grows rapidly, in a later scene it is bigger than a car, but it does not eat anything...

So by this film the authors did not know basic physical and chemical principles, for example: the principle of mass conservation... I love sci-fi, because it builds upon science, but this film is too far from reality, it's illogical like an LSD dream. If I turn off my brain I can watch it, and sometimes enjoy it, that's why I gave five points instead of one.