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Life

2017

Daniel Espinosa

Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada ...

5.8

25,165

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Horror Six astronauts aboard the space station study a sample collected from Mars that could provide evidence for extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. The crew determines that the sample contains a large, single-celled organism - the first example of life beyond Earth. But..things aren't always what they seem. As the crew begins to conduct research, and their methods end up having unintended consequences, the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"'Life's a thrill when it’s smart, but it’s even more exciting when the characters are dumb"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Insatiable genre fans who do buy a ticket will likely send lukewarm responses back to the wait-and-see crowd (...) The picture struggles to find a satisfying rhythm"	NEG
United States	Drew Taylor The Playlist	"What makes 'Life' genuinely shocking is that it adheres so closely to the formula without deviation, reinvention, or reflection. It’s simply a murderous-alien-on-a-spaceship movie. That’s it. And, it turns out, that’s okay."	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"The movie isn’t, to paraphrase a line from 'Spaceballs', the stupidest combination you’ve ever heard. But it’s not very good, either."	NEG
United States	Jonathan Poritsky IndieWire	"[It] is fun to watch but weak on new ideas (...) Its narrative can’t keep pace (...) 'Life' remains tethered to familiar terra firma."	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"'Life' isn’t a great movie (in fact, it’s kind of a mess). But it is a really fun one. Somehow it manages to keep pushing enough joy-buzzer buttons to keep the audience on edge until the last scene."	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Pile Empire	"Part 'Alien', part 'Gravity', just not as good as either of them. But 'Life' whips along at a decent pace and deploys enough engaging action sequences to make it work (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a serviceable, watchable, determinedly unoriginal film (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"'Life' feels like a B-movie on an A-budget (...) Still, taken on its entertainingly trashy terms, Espinosa’s film does most of the things you want from it quite well (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"There may be intelligent life hidden on Mars, but there’s precious little of it hidden in Hollywood if this feeble 'Alien' clone is anything to go by (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Its premise may be familiar but there is plenty of energy and ingenuity in the way the filmmakers tackle their material (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Neither Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal nor a creepy-crawly monster can save this 'Alien' ripoff. There's no life in 'Life', just leftovers."	NEU
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"'Life’s combination of a photogenic cast and arresting cinematography and FX should go some way towards countering its somewhat predictable plotting."	NEU

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