Reviews

Do they only send morons to space?

I found myself asking this question multiple times per episode, especially the latter ones.

A new co-pilot is inserted into the team just as the rocket is about to take off? No problem. He's an unlikeable blowhard but sure to be a team player!

Everyone on the station die of unknown cause? Take the helmet off, the air is fine! You can't be afraid of what you can't see right?

E2's body is found shot and frozen with precious cargo missing? By all means don't suspect the missing Ryu since it's only the monster that kills. Wait did you say gun shot?

Just stand there to waste time and watch Ryu meet his demise instead of hurrying away ? Don't let the water hit your behind on your way out!

Etc, etc, etc...

Let's tally this up: Lives of 2 amazing women are sacrificed so the bad guy can get arrested and shamed at his wedding. Hardly sounds fair.

Having said that, the story is captivating. Dark, funny and even joyful at times. The acting is effortless yet deep. The pace was swift with nary a dull moment. The soundtrack was another star adding to the many layers of each scene.

-2 for the bad guys outliving the heroine.

I'll give James Wan credit, the movie was not boring. But if he were trying to do a 'Cabin in the Woods' thing, he didn't succeed.

The big reveal that I've been hearing so much about actually made it worse as we learn that physical limitations do not exist as long as your body is being controlled by something. So our bones won't break if we jump out of a building if someone else wills it?

The main players act so stupidly in the end I didn't care whether they died or not. Who goes chasing a monster and not think to call for back up? Don't they have some bigger guns at a police station? So many questions were floating in my head as I was watching...

The first two acts were used to build up tension and the third shat all over them.

The many plot holes and stupidity of the heroine allowing those close to her to be hurt and even killed are much discussed in other reviews so I won't bother. When I first saw the dog's food bowl with the name 'Zeus' on it, I envisioned a devil dog, a terrifying accomplice to his abusive master. But moments later we meet a sweet pup that wants to leave his hellish abode with his mommy. However she takes his shock collar and then, just leaves him there? With the cruel husband she just drugged and is running away from? Who does that? Couldn't the sister have taken the dog to a shelter? I was relieved to see him alive and well later (how?) but her initial action turned me against Celia and had me rooting against her for most of the movie. The right people died at the end though, including her sister who must be one of the grating characters I've seen in a long time. It was visually well done and watchable if you have a couple hours to kill.

I don't write reviews, but the acting talent wasted by the crap script and inept directing has compelled me to write.

The biggest problem was that it's never made apparent to the viewers why the staff protects Morgan even though they had just viewed the mayhem she's caused. The moronic and nonsensical actions of the highly educated staff makes me think the writer believes all of us are this stupid except that the last presidential election has shown otherwise; only half of us are willing to protect someone in the face of certain death and destruction.

The moment Lee shoots Amy dead was the highlight of the third act for me. While everyone apparently followed the "How to do nothing while a coworker gets mauled to death" company handbook, Amy was the worst offender of them all. She had about 4-5 chances to stop Morgan or at least warn others of their impending doom. Then there's Skip, the useless cook, who had a rifle pointed at Morgan and thought the only reason she was acting this way was because no one had asked her not to.

I watched to the end purely out of hope the fine cast would turn this around. Alas, I was disappointed yet again.