Review of Life (2017) by Mmh35 — 21 Jul 2017
Watching this movie on Netflix, and a half hour into it I can tell it's bad. Almost forty minutes in Ryan Reynolds character dies. Life looks like it wants to be an independent space alien film, but all it is is a really bad B movie that happens to have two A list stars in it: Jake Gyllenhaal and Reynolds; and a rising star: Rebecca Ferguson.
They're not enough to save this boring mess. I'll be surprised if I make it to the end. It looks like I'm going to have to turn it off. I have never done that before. 51 minutes into it this movie is taking itself way too seriously.
It's a space alien movie for crying out loud; and there was absolutely no character development whatsoever before the alien started to take over. How am I suppose to care about the characters when I know nothing about them? The people who made this movie don't know what the hell they are doing.
57 minutes into the movie I'm utterly bored. Life makes Prometheus and Alien Covenant look like masterpieces; and Prometheus was a very frustrating movie but at least it had it's entertaining moments.
Alien Covenant is better then Prometheus. It's more entertaining; but Katherine Waterston was only somewhat better then Noomi Rapace was in Prometheus. Rebecca Ferguson is in the wrong alien movie. She would've been much better in Ridley Scott's alien movies then in Life.
Life makes Jake Gyllenhaal seem boring. I didn't think that was possible. 103 minutes into the movie, I'm going to try and stick it out, but hands down this is the worst alien movie I've ever seen. I would be giving it a 0 if it didn't have Reynolds, Ferguson and Gyllenhaal in it.
They deserve to be in a much better movie.
This review of Life (2017) was written by Mmh35 on 21 Jul 2017.
Life has generally received mixed reviews.
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