Review of Life (2017) by Wayne R — 26 Mar 2017

Good tension but can't compete with Alien movies at all.

This review of Life (2017) was written by Wayne R on 26 Mar 2017.

Life has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Late R (405) on 31 Dec 2018

The cast is fantastic (read: wasted) and it's nicely filmed with some pretty tense scenes, but we've seen this before from other films (it's…

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By Jordan Calhoun (35) for Black Nerd Problems (146) on 21 Jul 2018

A sci-fi drama that succeeds in capturing the long-prescribed design for survival flicks and thus accordingly succeeds at contrived, unimaginative…

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By Jes1310 (53) on 04 Feb 2019

Above average sci-fi Flick. Not quite Alien material, but the actors try and are doing and ok job…

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By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 31 Oct 2018

The portrayal of women and people of color doesn't outright offend, but their renderings are as watery as the rest of this cinematic oatmeal…

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By Jesse O (1,397) on 08 Jun 2018

I've often wondered how humanity would react to the knowledge of there being life on other planets, even if that life-form is a single-cell…

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By Apexrising (5) on 11 Aug 2023

A bad movie, enjoyable only by those who have very, very low standards. I know teenagers who could write a better screenplay…

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By Khari J. Sampson (27) for Gwinnett Daily Post (GA) (27) on 23 Aug 2018

A surprisingly rote, by-the-numbers, what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of thriller. By that standard, it more than gets the job done…

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By Quinn R (68) on 14 Jul 2018

Life's plot doesn't take long to outline…

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By Serge L (642) on 21 Sep 2018

The story is calque of Alien, only details are different. Good production and effects most of the time…

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By Hanna N (48) on 11 Jan 2019

If you are going to do aliens in space, you have to be compared to Alien, and if you are in that comparison, you have to have a very strong…

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