Review of High Life (2019) by Gwz — 09 Apr 2019

I had quite high expectations on this one. Big disappointment. High life tries to tell a story about the human nature on a backdrop of an unforgiving universe but falls into a deep pit of pretentiousness and missed opportunities, a lot like a black hole.

Why the overly lo-tech, low-budget setting? With stars like Pattinson and Binoche they should at lest have the money to shoot it in something better than a high-school boiler-room? I've seen it all before, and done better.

I can live with logic gaps or theater-like setting if the characters or story is compelling enough, but High Life just had... nothing. Want a movie about ennui in space? Se "Solaris" (the old one) or "Dark Star", they are so much better.