Only good for pointing out its shortcomings

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2017)

So roughly 3 minutes into the film, when a probe moving at ~10m/s (relative to the station, duh) was caught by the ISS' robot arm without anything breaking, I realized that this was going to be a stupid, stupid film, and I made the rest of the 1:43h more bearable by texting to my friends about how terrible this film is. Here's what I wrote:

'Life' is a stupid, stupid film. Nobody should waste money to see it.

A supposedly trained astronaut just asked whether one could breathe in space

and its depiction of orbital mechanics is worse than in 'Gravity' & 'Interstellar'

now they're trying to be philosophical. This is sad.

All their science is terrible, purely for the sake of cinematography. Dumbed down as much as possible. It's yet another film made by people who don't respect their audience.

A Soyuz just docked. At >1m/s. And now they're talking about pushing the ISS 'out into deep space'. With a Soyuz.

They just claimed that the ISS has two 'life boats' that only fit one person each. And there were 6 crew members at the beginning of the film.

It's like a bunch of drunk nerds passed time by thinking up a list of all the things one could do wrong in a space movie, and then a Hollywood producer found that list and mistook it for a screenplay.

I keep telling people how the cost of a single US fighter airplane could fund 2 or 3 awesome space missions like 'New Horizons' or 'Dawn'. Now I can't help but think how many good space films could've been produced with the amount of money sunk into this piece of garbage.

Now, that's not even close to a complete list of all the things wrong with this film, scientifically, dramaturgically, logically, visually, etc. Better nerds than myself will surely make a comprehensive, and, by necessity, extensive list. I feel a pressing need to shame Hollywood for vomiting up such a waste of work hours, all of whose mistakes were completely avoidable, and made purely out of disrespect and, it seems, active contempt for the audience. This film didn't just not need to be made, it needed to not be made. It's an insult to science, to the audience, and to the poor cast & crew, who, in addition to having wasted valuable life time, will also forever bear the mark of shame of being named in the credits of this horrible, horrible piece of trash.