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I thought most of it was good. Although the characters seemed to be of only average intelligence. Not the kind of people you'd see on the space station. The station's mechanic was right to gripe out the exobiologist. It's not a pet. It could be another anthrax! Something the exobiologist seemed to have never considered. When the **** started to hit the fan, the exobiologist should have been the expert on things to try for killing it.
I did like the alien. It seemed realistic until it suddenly became a super hero that could withstand the vacuum of space and had unlimited strength and was extremely smart for something that was about a month old.
Nits...
- I see we're back to having sound in space.
- Why didn't the earth roll by beneath the space station in many scenes? It's as if the ISS wasn't moving.
- There's no way the SSRMS (space station remote manipulator system - aka robotic arm) would be able to function after catching that spacecraft, let alone actually catch it. And you would NEVER... NEVER have an astronaut standing by next to it, or even place the space station in its path. The soyuz that docked with the station applied much less force and demolished the space station.
- The Soyuz's RCS jets are not going to propel it to the 25,000 mph needed to escape the earth's gravity.
But overall I thought it was good as far as hollywood movies go. But WTF was that at the end? It's as if the director's 13 year old kid suddenly took over the movie and said "Ok, now the commander's safe at home, the Earth is safe... Oh no! The two space craft were switched and the commander's gone off into deep space and the alien landed on earth with the pilot!". Give me a break.
