Corrected entry: When Stone makes it to the Chinese station, it is experiencing reentry. This is nothing but a drama-making mistake, as the station would have needed to have been actively boosted down/slowed down for it to have been a deliberate deorbit, or have had its navigation completely neglected for months or years for its orbit to decay to that point. In either of these two cases, it could not have been orbiting at a fixed position with the otherwise-stable ISS. (01:11:10)
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Correction: The Chinese station has been hit, damage is visible. This could have knocked it into a lower orbit sufficient for atmospheric drag to cause it to re-enter the atmosphere.
Yes it could cause the station to re-enter the atmosphere but not to the point where it makes it through the atmosphere, and into earth's sky, and onto earth's surface. The station would get burned up if what your saying really did cause it to re-enter the atmosphere.
It did break into pieces and burn up.