Life (2017)

Life ends up as a fairly satisfying if standard thriller. It packs in all it needs to to entertain but doesn't really go beyond that. I felt that what was holding Life back was just how familiar it all felt. It is sort of a conglomeration of a number of other familiar and loved films from Alien to 2001 to The Blob to The Thing, to Gravity. It's a combination that generally works, producing a product which doesn't bore for 100ish minutes but feels a bit like it has all been done before.

This was most succinctly captured in Ryan Reynolds' performance which he just copied from Deadpool, you know the character we expect from Reynolds at this point. Life is a good idea just not an original one. And there really isn't anything wrong with that for 100ish minutes.

In fact there is so little to say about Life that I am pretty much done except to say that it has a rather bold ending which impressed me. It's one of those films that will make a good watch when there isn't anything better on.

Life
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuka Sanada, Ariyon Bakara, Ryan Reynolds
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick