Not as bad as its reviews suggest - there's some smart ideas, it aims to be a thinking piece. The production values are excellent as is the cast.
The story however still falls into Alien tropes - diverse types on a space ship, foreigner (Elizabeth Debicki) comes on board, havoc ensues, people being killed off one by one. There's even a chest bursting, albeit with bugs and not an alien, and a person loses an arm (is he an alien? I wasn't sure).
Gug Mbatha-Raw is solid value as the lead, though she's helped by having stuff to play - a husband, dead kids, heroic,etc. The others on the space ship don't - Chris O'Dowd loses an arm and cracks jokes, John Oritz was religious. That's about it. I can barely remember what Daniel Bruhl did.
I feel mashing it up with a monster movie didn't work - there's already the future, and time travel... then they throw in monsters. It was a bit confusing. But I've seen worse films.
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