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Mar 24, 2017 · With Hiroyuki Sanada, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal. A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Daniel Espinosa
- 2017-03-24
- Priming The Big Reveal
- The Twist
- Survival and Sacrifice
- Metamorphosis
- Alien Intelligence
- The Meaning of Life
- Them and Us
For the most part, this story runs on a well-worn groove: astronauts pick up an alien entity, and the alien picks off the astronauts, one by one. Sounds derivative? Actually, that familiarity is a red herring. Rather than a series of deaths followed by triumph or the suggestion of hope, Life bends the rules of story resolution. There’s no last-minu...
With the rest of the crew dead, Miranda and medical officer David (Jake Gyllenhaal) have one last chance to save the planet. David lures Calvin into an escape pod. He means to manually override the auto-pilot for as long possible, marooning himself – and the killer creature – in deep space. This lets Miranda escape in the other pod and raise the al...
More than any other cinema profession (…probably), sacrifice is hard-coded into the astronaut job description. This is particularly true of films that send people into outer space for the good of humanity, though we also see it in films with space-likeenvironments (i.e., ocean-floor movies). Miranda and David are both willing to die to save the hum...
Here’s a question: does the same alien kill each crew member?Well, maybe yes and no. Hugh discovers a single-cell organism in the Mars sample. A few days later, the neighbouring cells converge (though each cell can function independently as eye, brain and skin). Together, they’re not a colony but a complex organism, a delicate thread-like bundle of...
We’ve been dramatising the Martian threat since at least the 19th century. Life revisits this sci-fi staple … with a spin. Rather than technologically advanced or even humanoid beings, this Martian isn’t intelligent. Or so we think. Miranda fears biological threat, i.e., anthrax, yet no one predicts a coordinated attack. It’s just bacteria, right? ...
For a one-word title, Life makes a meal of ambiguity. That’s quite fitting, though, as the title’s shifting meaning reflects the story’s false turns and red herrings. 1. Initially it’s about finding life beyond Earth. 2. Because Mars was once like Earth, the alien amoeba promises to unlock the secrets of our existence, too. 3. However, the alien’s ...
The crew certainly don’t want to die. But aside from the breaks of evolutionary divergence, what separates their complexity from Calvin’s is valuing life beyond their own. Obviously our drive to survive is at least partly about individual existence, but also about the continuity of our species, and of those we love. The stories we tell often celebr...
In the film, a six-member crew of the International Space Station uncovers the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. When members of the crew conduct their research, the rapidly evolving life-form proves to be far more intelligent and dangerous than expected.
Life is just thrilling, well-acted, and capably filmed enough to overcome an overall inability to add new wrinkles to the trapped-in-space genre. Astronauts (Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson ...
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Mar 27, 2017 · "Life tells the story of the six-member crew of the International Space Station that is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of ...
Life is a 2017 American sci-fi horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and starring Jake Gyllenhaal , Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds. The film follows a six-member crew of the International Space Station that uncovers the first evidence of life on Mars. Plot.
Mar 24, 2017 · A bit of an interesting movie. It starts off as a rather interesting idea, but essentially turns quickly into a generic creature feature using alot of cliches and closely mimicking the original Alien movie. Some pretty good performances from the cast and some tense atmosphere building. However, the pacing is a bit off and does drag a bit at times.
