LIFEFORM THAT IMITATES

Rating: 7/10 (12 November 2019)

Intriguing little sci-fi dished up for those that love the genre and if one pays attention this movie has the ability to cause you to pause and consider another way, lifeform and existence and not necessarily like our own but similar in ways. What one has to know and it would help to know this right away is that a meteor crash lands and brings microbes of a sort to earth that just take-off in different directions on this planet. It knows to imitate and mix but not necessarily make sense of what it is doing but just to do what it does is sufficient unto itself. It doesn't think or use intelligence but it can manipulate on biological levels and have those experiences. Fascinating because the highest life form on the planet is us and that is when the story gets interesting. It tries to mimic/mutate a human because it recognizes it can but it is not a perfect human as we are but as close as it can come. It doesn't have a soul is the best way for me to describe it. It is alive, has awareness and it is driven to duplicate itself through cellular duplication successfully. What it takes over however doesn't survive except for a few molecules here and there at least temporarily. There is a part in this movie where this alien microbe learns to self-destruct from someone that is teaching it that and does so however not before it learned to do other imitations as well. The ending will have you pausing for discussion. This movie manages to keep you in scene after scene quite well. As viewers we want answers and we wait patiently to get them until the very end where we end up having more questions than answers. Sci-fi that makes you think doesn't disappoint. This is that movie. Have something to nibble on to ease tension or fingers will enter the mouth and nails chewed