As the rest of the crew -Įkaterina Golovkina (Olga Dihovichnaya), Dr. Exobiologist Hughĭerry (Ariyon Bakare) discovers evidence of life, a single-cell organism that quickly multiplies itself into a larger creature. It's a bumpy, risky coupling, but the crew manages to haul it in intact. The crew of the Nostromo, er, the International Space Station, brings aboard a wayward probe that holds precious samples from anĮxpedition to Mars. Indeed, "serviceable" describes it to a "T." It has no staying power beyond its time on the screen. The film, from Director Daniel Espinosa ( Safe House), satisfies all technical requirements and delivers a decentĮnough time-killing watch, but audiences should be prepared for a film that yields little in the way of serious drama, characterization, gore, or genreĬhills. The movie offers little of creative substance, serving instead as a perfectly serviceable and largelyĮntertaining but fairly hollow nuts-and-bolts tale of a handful of science-types trapped on board a space station with a deadly, evolving alien creature. Masterpiece, but it is a derivative facsimile thereof. It's not a poor man's recreation of Ridley Scott's genre Reviewed by Martin Liebman, June 18, 2017Īrt imitates life, and Life imitates movies like Alien.
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