Review of Life (2017) by Dharma — 08 Jun 2017

A lot of film fans praise LIFE a lot, saying that it's a realistic interpretation of the great 'what if', encountering a hostile alien life form. For most of its part, it succeeds to do that, thanks to a truly stellar line up of casts that include Jake Gylenhall, Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds.

However, it jettisons such lofty ambitions to become another 'ALIEN' clone, and here, it's so called 'realism' made it a victim of itself. A good 'ALIEN' clone has to have one key ingredient: great, bombastic, creature design.

Calvin, the so called ALIEN and monster of this flick, looks like an 'evil' Pokemon.....which is seemingly invincible and behave like an inter galactic Freddie Krueger. Sure it has the so called twist ending, which sort of again called for Calvin to become this 'super alien' that can literally learn how to control a spaceship.

As such, this so called 'absurdities' clashed with the realistic tone it greatly established early on. The end result: a good time on video perhaps, but a clear missed opportunity.