Review of Life (2017) by Justin N — 08 Jan 2018

By far one of the worst movies I have ever watched. The scenes themselves are well made, featuring great acting and high quality CGI. The story premise has potential, but the reliance on multiple faults and accidents (at least 3) that seem unlikely to occur by themselves and during multiple scenes the characters seem to forget their years of experience as scientists, including one scene where every single character forgets that there are protocols, and another where a character tries to get petty revenge instead of holding quarantine (both of these scenes appeared at the start and no one was in danger during the latter scene). The ending has a plot twist that felt forced and cheap, and seemed so contrived I had to fight the urge to stop watching. Luckily for me, the movie ended about 2 minutes after.

The movie appears to be a Alien rip-off sprinkled with a few "modern day" modifications. The change from the characters being scavengers to scientists between Aliens and Life makes the disorganisation and rage shown as the tension is supposed to build makes the characters seem unqualified and stupid. I couldn't really sympathise with many of them. The ending is to some extent different, but that doesn't make it good.

In layman's terms, do not watch this movie. You will not get anything from it and you will lose two hours of your existence that you could have spent doing something else and, in rare cases, you may lose a little bit of your faith in humanity.

Well, it does let me make an ironic joke by being able to say "Life is the worst movie of all time".