Review of Life (2017) by Hsuke — 23 Jul 2017

This movie starts out somewhat realistically like Gravity but quickly descends into dumb slasher-horror territory. The alien's ability is portrayed inconsistently from predictable organism to impossibly-invulnerable adamantium.

Basically, it's always just as powerful as it needs to be to advance the story. The crew's decisions also get remarkably irrational and unrealistic over time. Instead of prioritizing their main objective of quarantine, they keep screwing up over and over, risking everything to save a single teammate who's already as good as dead.

It's as if their entire training or flight/fight instinct never kicked in. They act more like fall guys in a B-rated horror flick than like scientists. I would've liked to watch something more similar to the "Kodoku Experiment" where crew and alien are more consistently intelligent throughout the story.