"Earth company spends $1 TRILLION to launch an interstellar mission to discover the origins of intelligent life on planet Earth. Rather than send the very best and brightest scientists available, company selects a group of medium-qualified individuals with little concept of the scientific method.

Chaos ensues."

I think that about covers it.

I was sitting in a hotel room at 1 A.M., on a motorcycle run weekend, and caught the first hour of this movie. I ended up MS3TK'ing almost every scene:


"Look! We found a decapitated head from an alien and now we've gotten its helmet off!"

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to stick a 30A electrical probe into its spinal cord and see if I can make it do something!"

:head explodes:


I was laying in bed in my shared room watching this, with Chaz in the bed next to me. By the time I saw [that] scene, I turned to Chaz and said:

"These people are too stupid to live. They deserve to die."

Really. Let's take a chemical analysis of an alien atmosphere and, based upon that, take your helmet off. Bacterial and viral analysis? Isotopes?

Grab some alien biology and take it home with no significant isolation protocols.

Then, of course, the whopper: stick an electrical probe into your alien corpse before you even START to investigate its biology or neuron / nervous system design.


The only excuse I can give for such TERRIBLE WRITING is that most people believe that this is "science fiction" nowadays.