New horror movie - same old mistakes (spoilers!)
Well, the special affects and the acting was good!
Apart from that well... sometimes you wonder "How hard can it be to fix those same old tired mistakes they keep writing in those scripts!?"
The cheap fast way to create trouble: Make the characters UNBELIEVABLY stupid.
This movie did just that.
Send 4 people into space, to some REALLY expensive moon base, what are you going to make sure of? That those people are intelligent, work well under pressure, are highly educated and trained.
This is where the writing gets poor and sloppy... yet again.
A scientist finds a new lifeform of some sort, and she wants to analyze it. Fair enough. Does she do it slow and careful? No, she rushes ahead and slams the centrifuge lid, looking like it's a race against time, then cuts herself WITHOUT telling the doctor...
BECAUSE SHE'S SCARED?!?!
A rational person, even a non-trained scientist, would quickly tell the doctor to perhaps try and do something about it.
From here on the stupidity just increases. Two people claim they saw something, I admit it's clever to introduce the carbon dioxide poisoning, because that can give the doc an excuse to say they hallucinate.
But how fast would actual logic people find out that Bruce and Ava saw the EXACT same white alien baby? What are the chances they would hallucinate the same thing? That bite wound looked like a several pieces of glass cut him?
The list goes on and on. I almost started laughing when Ava run towards the Alien-Bruce with the gun (did she want to club him with it?) and Gerard then completes the idiocy by turning his back on the threat to check on Ava who was knocked to the ground.
(Do I take care of the Alien threat, or do I lean over and help Ava? Easy choice!)
It's like watching clowns have a pretend-fight for the kids.
You could alter 10-20 pages in the script and this movie would actually be good, in my humble opinion. As it stands, the average IQ of 68 is just pathetic. 4 educated smart people with training would just not be that idiotic from the get go.
Sure, blame the lack of oxygen if you want to defend this movie, let's hear excuses for all the horror movies who also introduce stupidity in all main characters, because they can't seem to think of anything good.
The doctor was the least stupid, he made the movie bearable for a while, even though he chose to get air locked for no apparent reason.
I wanted to like this movie, Christian Slater and the others did well, it was even off to a good start and as I said, the special effects and the nice looking base but even my calm wife get's so annoyed she can't stand those decisions they throw at us.