Review of Life (2017) by Alan H — 25 Mar 2017

This dark sci-fi is as delicious as it is disturbing.

This review of Life (2017) was written by Alan H on 25 Mar 2017.

Life has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Kdog152 (56) on 27 Jan 2023

Not a masterpiece by all means, but not awful either. I will say however, that the ending was rubbish…

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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 Kat Hughes (161) for The Hollywood News (161) on 28 Aug 2018

Life is one of those films that really has to be seen on the big screen to truly experience it in all its splendour…

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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 Rox22 (212) on 04 Sep 2022

A bit of an interesting movie…

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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 William L (364) on 11 Jul 2018

I am really glad I watched this after it came out I the stores…

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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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By Trace Thurman (81) for Bloody Disgusting (327) on 31 Oct 2018

There's just nothing here that you haven't already seen before in better films…

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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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