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L..I..F..E (2017)
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror
L..I..F..E (2017)
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror
On board the international Space Station a team of scientist recover a probe sent to discover life on Mars. They find life. And it finds them! C.R.
LIFE...part sci fi and part horror and a whole lot like Alien. The first 30 minutes were spell binding, and the film had quite the impact. The scene where the tiny alien life form grips the hand of a research scientist and squeezes until it pulverized every bone in his hand, was powerful! I swear I scarcely breathed during that scene...And I was thinking this might be the best sci-fi horror since Alien.
There's something very dangerous about an innocuous looking blob of cellular material, that despite looking harmless, posses a life threatening situation. But then after feeding it, it grows (of course) then it becomes a octopus looking thing that stalks the crew. At that point the creature looked like a movie prop, even though it's CG. Just the way it moved and looked reminded me of a dozen other horror films.
Even worse was as the film went on, the science part went out the proverbial window, as the scientist make the stupidest decisions possible. At one point the creature is outside of the ship and the scientist are amazed at how it can function in the vacuum of space. But later when the creature is back aboard the scientist decide it must need oxygen, so they vent the atmosphere and it begins dying. Say what??? Wasn't it just going like gang busters on the hull of the ship without oxygen, 10 minutes earlier?
Towards the end of the movie I actually found myself saying, 'oh good he deserved to die for being so stupid.' You know a movie has lost it's effectiveness, when you end up rooting for the mutant alien! Oh, the twist ending was silly too.
Even worse was as the film went on, the science part went out the proverbial window, as the scientist make the stupidest decisions possible. At one point the creature is outside of the ship and the scientist are amazed at how it can function in the vacuum of space. But later when the creature is back aboard the scientist decide it must need oxygen, so they vent the atmosphere and it begins dying. Say what??? Wasn't it just going like gang busters on the hull of the ship without oxygen, 10 minutes earlier?
Towards the end of the movie I actually found myself saying, 'oh good he deserved to die for being so stupid.' You know a movie has lost it's effectiveness, when you end up rooting for the mutant alien! Oh, the twist ending was silly too.
I could go on, but needless to say if you want some plausible science and plausible actions taken by scientist...this ain't the film for that.
However if you want a fun popcorn sci fi horror flick, then LIFE might do the trick. Just don't look for logic or originality here.
However if you want a fun popcorn sci fi horror flick, then LIFE might do the trick. Just don't look for logic or originality here.