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Aims somewhere halfway between Gravity and Alien, but isn't nearly as good as either. It's not even as good as Event Horizon, frankly.
There's the occasional effective moment where the alien reveals its calm, probing, underestimated intelligence. But the possibility space and stakes are regularly unclear and the human characters seem more like androids with everything dialled down to 50% - emotions, individuality, common sense, protocol observance etc. By the halfway mark I was rooting for the alien but even that wasn't much fun as it never becomes anything more interesting than a space shark. Direction and cinematography is competent, though the geography of the space station is hazy and there's too much (unconvincing) CGI.
Rating: Bad.
(Watched 29 Aug, 2020)
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