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movie review - Life

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

According to my records, I don't have good luck with movies titled "Life". I see a review of a bomb with Eddie Murphy back in the '90s, and now this.

This one is a Sci-Fi story that starts on an Earth-orbiting science lab. A specimen brought back from Mars seems to contain a life-form. Before long, the amorphous and extremely over-powered creature has grown immensely and has killed just about everyone. After a long and doomed battle, the humans put in a last ditch-effort to save the planet beneath them from the unstoppable menace. I like what happened there, it's certainly not a happy ending but I think it fit the tone of the rest.

But I have to say there was something that put me off about this whole thing. The great cast looked uncomfortable interacting, and the whole thing felt rushed and obvious. I began skipping along when I felt that I understood where it was going, and I was not wrong.

Not recommended.