Life
Published 2017-08-30
Film info
- Title Life
- Director Daniel Espinosa
- Year 2017
- Run time 1hr 44m
- Genres Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller
- Tagline Be careful what you search for
- Cast Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds
Life is a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:57 | Things travel so fast in space but also appear not to be moving at all. |
| 3:50 | Very useful radio message for us, essentially a captain's log, stardate. |
| 7:17 | "Remember your training." "We never trained for this." |
| 8:49 | Gotta get that shot on Instagram, asap. |
| 11:12 | Quite like it when not all the characters get the references either. Phew! |
| 12:26 | "Did it just move?" ARGH. |
| 15:44 | Why does it need a name? |
| 18:32 | Yo-yo in zero g is mental. |
| 27:46 | Do they just have the one sample? They must have picked up more than one. |
| 36:11 | Tense. TENSE. |
| 39:05 | I really wasn't prepared for this film. |
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Thoughts
The first twenty minutes of this were great, setting up interesting ethical and moral questions alongside the unmistakable tension and suspense that a movie like Alien does so well. Unfortunately, once the action actually started, it was just too much grossness. That's all I can say.
Rating: Unrated