Rod Diaz

That was ugly. Not the visuals themselves, they were very pretty and if nothing else the space sequences looked really neat. The story is an unbelievable mess. Not because it was slow, but because the implausibility of the stuff that happens to the characters borders on the ridiculous. Dude's shelter is collapsing to the ocean due to thin ice... and of course the thing he salvages is a rifle. And of course, in this post-apocalyptic world, every time a structure is entered the gun enters first. FFS. Aforementioned dude actually ends up in a hole in the ice, submerged in sea water just around freezing. Of course he just swims to the surface, contemplates existence for a few moments, then just puts a jacket on. Maybe the encroaching radiation negates hypothermia. More unbelievable stuff: crew goes for a space walk to fix the ship, get's "Gravity'd" and caught in a space debris shower. That all looks quite pretty as in the previous Clooney movie. Even better. The groan-inducing ridiculous thing is that a crew member gets hit with a piece of space shrapnels travelling at... what? 5 km/s? 5,000 m/s. And she doesn't feel the thing and everyone is surprised? Yeah, right. C'mon. The kinetic energy o would be comparable to something shot out of a tank. But there they are, chatting happily and feeling lucky until they see some (very beautiful) floating red spheres inside her helmet. And finally... pregnant couple let their two crewmates go back down to earth, and stay on the spaceship to colonize the earth-like moon. It's worth a shot, right? Yeah, except for inbreeding and lack of genetic diversity. Ah well, those two extra men probably just had low sperm count from space radiation (partner seemed fertile enough, though). Anyway.... ugh. I think I'll just skip any space movie with Clooney unless someone that knows what's going on is consulted - maybe a space scientist, an MD with some understanding of hypothermia and trauma...But hey, at least the name for the baby should be easy: Eve. Then make a boy and call him Adam. Or heck, just make this into "If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister (T. Sturgeon). You can add some mythology there about a snake and fire and brimstone to remember the good ol' planet we torched.

Nothing groundbreaking here, but if you liked Alien this is right up there.

Ugh... well, movie goes from a "trapped" setting to a "TV is controlling you". Has all the drawbacks from a poorly hatched trapped setting - characters don't question situations logically (the driving prejudice is xenophobia, and the emergency reduces some characters to obey authority - how they accept that this is the legitimate gov't and not the terrorist plot they fear itself is never explored". Then it gets worse - becomes a TV controlling/christianity saviour theme...which would be compelling if this was the 70's and this was a B&W episode of the Twilight Zone. In the era of multiple media, this influence feels outdated, quaint and unbelievable. Not recommended.