Life

2017 • 103 minutes

About this movie

Life is an intense sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life-form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.

Ratings and reviews

Great cast, horrible script, Ryan Reynolds completely underutilized. Rehashing a lot of old sci-fi invasion/discovery tropes, but exploring nothing new in the process. Bottom line, you've already seen this movie under several different names and seen it done way, way better. These are possibly some of the worst and dumbest scientists and astronauts possible. Of course the lab has a major quarantine flaw. Of course they don't do the weeks/months of carefully controlled study that any rational scientist would do. Of course the geeky scientist is so excited he ignores the scientific method and touches the lifeform he's barely spent minutes studying, of course he's so excited he does other dumb things like shocking it with electricity to wake it up. The fact that the lifeform is growing so quickly seems to bother zero people. It kills 3 times and grows at an alarming rate before anyone seriously considers a threat assessment. Essentially the whole movie exists because a bunch of people who should be highly trained professionals act like idiots and make a series of ridiculous ignorant rookie mistakes that endanger everyone's lives.

Esta película se veía tan bien en los tráilers... spoilers por delante. Lo bueno realmente termina ahí. Ryan Reynolds está muy infrautilizado. Los personajes eran planos y muy idiotas. ¿Quiere que crea que un equipo que está allí para estudiar a un extraterrestre no sabe cuál es el protocolo completo de contención? No, como nerd del espacio sé que los astronautas entrenan y están bien informados de lo que van a hacer. Cuáles podrían ser los resultados y cuáles son los protocolos. Esto de que "nadie sabía que la NASA intentaría expulsar la estación espacial de la órbita como último recurso" es bs. También estoy bastante seguro de que una sola cápsula Soyuz no es suficiente delta v (empuje) para expulsar a toda la ISS al espacio profundo. Y si lo hiciera, no estaría tripulado ya que no podría regresar. Una nota técnica al margen, bastante seguro de que no puede ingresar al interior de la estación espacial a través de un propulsor alimentado por combustible altamente corrosivo. De ninguna manera hay un vínculo de estos combustibles muy peligrosos con el compartimento de la tripulación. Y si esa forma de vida es susceptible a los mismos peligros que tenemos, un propulsor de reacción sería una sentencia de muerte para meterse dentro. Cometen error tras error que ningún astronauta cometería. Una y otra vez, buscan a tientas y dejan que sus emociones tomen el control. Si el equipo no es creíble, entonces toda la película no es creíble de ninguna manera. Arranca cada vida extraterrestre descubierta y mata a todos en una película. Lo único bueno de esta película es que los gráficos están bien hechos y el final no es malo.

This movie looked so good in the trailers... spoilers ahead. The good really ends about there. Ryan Reynolds is way underused. The characters were flat and very idiotic. You want me to believe that a crew there to study an alien doesn't know what the full containment protocol Is? No, as a space nerd I know that astronauts train and are well informed of what they are going to be doing. What the outcomes could be and what the protocols are. This "no one knew that NASA would try to eject the space station from orbit as a last resort" thing is bs. Also pretty sure a single Soyuz capsule is not enough delta v(thrust) to eject the entire ISS into deep space. And if it did it would not be manned as it could not return. A side tech note, pretty sure you can't get into the interior of the space station through a highly corrosive fuel fed thruster. No way there is a link from these very dangerous fuels into the crew compartment. And if that life form is susceptible to the same dangers we have a reaction thruster would be a death sentence to climb inside. They make mistake after mistake that no astronaut would make. Time after time they fumble and let their emotions take over. If the crew isn't believable, then the whole movie is in no way believable. It rips off every alien life discovered and kill everyone movie to a t. The only redeeming things about this movie are the graphics are well done and the ending is not bad.