Life Movie Review

Movie Analysis & Review

Life, released on 22 March 2017, is an Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller film (Released) with a runtime of 104 minutes. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Skydance Media in United States of America. Directed by Daniel Espinosa, the movie features performances by Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare, Naoko Mori, Haruka Kuroda. The film had a budget of $58.0 million and grossed $100.5 million.
Plot Summary: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

Cast and Crew

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare, Naoko Mori, Haruka Kuroda
Crew: Tony Chance (Storyboard Artist), Daniel Espinosa (Director), Rhett Reese (Writer), Paul Wernick (Writer), Seamus McGarvey (Director of Photography), Simon Hayes (Production Sound Mixer), Bonnie Curtis (Producer), David Ellison (Producer)
Director: Daniel Espinosa

Overview of Life

Release Date: 2017-03-22
Runtime: 104 min
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Status: Released
Budget: $58,000,000
Revenue: $100,541,806
Production: Columbia Pictures, Skydance Media
Countries: United States of America
Certification (IN): N/A
OTT Providers: Netflix
Keywords: planet mars, alien life-form, space, astronaut, space station, intelligent, trapped in space, extraterrestrial life, alien on board, death of astronaut, cliché
External: IMDB

Story & Plot

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

Trailer

Reviews

Gimly: _Life_ may not be doing anything new, but it's doing it better than similar services of late.

_Final rating:★★★ – I personally recommend you give it a go._

007ace: **Unexpected horror** <br>

I was expecting so.ething watered down and similar to most new 'no escape' sci-fi movies. This was a great change, it felt more like alien; dark, gritty, serious.<br>You could spend hours picking things apart but it is enjoyable and I think that outweighs most of those …

Reno: **Their historic discovery was not celebratable.**

As I mentioned many times before, now is the trend of the space exploration in films. So there were many films like this one, but not all of them are received well. It was a decent flick, if you consider from the real world aspect, but definitely…

Markus Birth: _"Monkeys in Space"_ would be a better title for this flick. As with all bad horror movies, the horror only exists because of people ignoring even the simplest rules or just not talking to each other. Add various logic errors to it and you have _"Life"_.

**⚠ SPOILERS AHEAD ⚠**

Things turn stup…

John Chard: It's life, Jim, but actually as we know it.

Life is an average sci-fi picture, one that gets by on effects and general sci-fi values. Plot is utterly familiar. OK! It's always going to be unfair to judge a film of this type by the bar raiser that was Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), but really the fa…

5rJoud: **Yes, okay.**

Boring characters, wasted superstars on a meaningless script, huge Alien rip-off which didn't work, an almost Marvel-style hologram on the ISS, laughable. Everything is so bad in this movie, except for the production value. We see gorgeous floating in zero-g, a sweet looking alien …

AstroNoud: If you can ignore some plot-gaps, the sci-fi horror ‘Life’ will keep you on the edge of your seat until its very ending – accompanied by a haunting score.

7/10

Recommendations

Alien: Covenant, Ghost in the Shell, The Mummy, Kong: Skull Island, Get Out

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