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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Great cast, terrible text. Omg, this director is a dumb, the end of this movie is such horrible. Don't lose your time with this piece of you all now…

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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 Garry A (128) on 14 Jul 2018

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By Peterf28 (9) on 06 Oct 2018

This could have been a great movie. Gyllenhaal is not a astronaut, he is too stupid for that role…

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A bit of an interesting movie…

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By Stefano C (730) on 07 Jun 2018

Take the movie Alien, from it take out the alien. What do you have? basically nothing that is worth watching…

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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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