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Just perfect...

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Absolutely Fantastic

Very stupid and predictable decisions the entire time. Very terrible movie

Being a fan of Aliens series, this movie can't be a 10 since it didn't break any moulds. Also, audience may find it frustrating to switch mood between fear, melancholy and contemplative.However, I'd give it a solid 7 for the good actors, believable alien design and frightening (at least unpleasant if you're a seasoned sci-fi thriller fan) death scenes. The alien was menacing physically as well as intelligently, so a reboot or sequel may be doable.The movie is long enough to build empathy towards characters, and serves as a cautionary tale of "don't mess with things you don't know". I saw the movie twice, so the second time I skipped the first 13 minutes. Most of the characters' behaviour stayed consistent, i.e. dumb troubles were caused by the more curious characters. The rest of the movie adequately showed a mix of sci-fi horror, human drama and moral lessons.The ending was meant to be a surprise, but it's unpleasantly familiar to horror fans. The blu-ray special features include a few short (7 minutes each) interviews and production comments on alient creature design based on genetics consultation.If you're in the mood for a mix of sci-fi horror and drama, you'd enjoy the movie.

They tried to make something close to Prometheus but oh man, that was an awful attempt.. so many mistakes that even I who usually ignores most of any reality things in favor of just having fun couldn't even take it anymore..Let's ignore the lack of precautions while dealing with an unknown being.. then the apparently carbon based organismo that is immune to fire and has some invisible thrusters attached to it cause it could move so fast it was ridiculous..It needs oxygen but can stay for many minutes in space, rightWhy did the commander spend all that time and effort trying to go back and ending up fighting Gyllenhaal's characters while he was trying to open the door... to make it more plausible.. she should've tried to shake it loose, maybe being being able to do it.. rush to the hatch and then the alien getting her again... and then the commander deciding to jump into space to save everyone.. but her jump would go near another part of the spaceship allowing the alien to climb back on it..If you want to make the lifeform get to earth, at least don't insult the viewer's intelligence.. it can guide the pod back to earth? whaat? and even tho, the fishermen saw a hurt astronaut with a giant octopus attached to him and clearly screaming "NOOO" they ignore him and open it? Oh come on.. give me a break

Continuing the lineage of films such as "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (1958) and "Alien" (1979), "Life" finds a group of spacefarers dealing with a malignant, and apparently unstoppable, predatory life-form prowling around their ship (in this case, the International Space Station) and gradually thinning out the crew. All of the action is in/around the ISS's 'zero-G' environment, which is very well done, and provides an opportunity for a novel and imaginative creature design. The film has some pacing problems, with interludes of dialogue (about the children's book for example) dulling the mounting tension and there too many plot holes (see 'goofs' section) to get really caught up in the story. The behavior of the alien is inconsistent and its capabilities vague and 'convenient' (for example, it needs oxygen yet can survive in a vacuum when the plot needs it to do so). I also found the tension quickly deflated every time the characters referred to the predatory Martian as "Calvin" (I don't know why the writers indulged in this conceit, can you imagine "Alien" with Ripley and Dallas scouring the 'Nostromo' with flame throwers looking for a 'Calvin'?). Unfortunately, "Life" is like a lot of recent big CGI-driven spectaculars, great to look at as long as you don't think too much about what you are seeing.