In Life from 2017, a crew of astronauts is busy securing a sample probe from Mars. She should Evidence of alien lifen on the planet. After the team actually finds traces of intelligence in the spores, their achievement quickly becomes their downfall. The alien creature sparks a brutal fight for survival on board the space station.
Life with stars like Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Road House) is now available to stream again on Netflix. For Alien fans this is nasty B-movie in A-league guise just right for tonight.
Life scores with rough hardness and electrifying voltage peaks
While the initial plan sequence to introduce the setting still suggests elegance and calm, Life by Morbius director Daniel Espinosa soon develops into a nightmare restless cuts and hectic panic. The alien organism that the crew brought aboard the space station brutally makes its way through the crew.
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Life: Ryan Reynolds looks worried… rightly so
While the space setting increasingly seems like a claustrophobic prison, Life’s obvious parallels to the great classics of the genre such as Alien cannot be overlooked. Daniel Espinosa shakes up the predictable plot with regular peaks of tension and nasty dying moments, which the director sometimes does drags on painfully long.
Life happily feeds the A-League cast around Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds
The fact that Life has a cast made up of big Hollywood stars only superficially belies the grim nature of the sci-fi horror. In addition to Hollywood greats Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, I also have Dune star Rebecca Ferguson and Hiroyuki Sanada, who recently stood out for his leading role in Shogun.
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Sci-Fi instead of Shogun: Hiroyuki Sanada vs. Alien in Life
The greatest appeal of Life is to expose yourself to a visually and actingly glossy Hollywood production that sends its ensemble through hell in nasty B-movie slingshots. The acting heavyweights are left to die in a particularly perfidious way and even at the end Life still has one bitter twist has in stock.
You will look in vain for innovations and surprises within the genre in Life. At hideous terror and bitter tipswhich could stay in the minds of a sensitive audience for longer, the sci-fi horror film is even less lacking.