Surprisingly good

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2017)

Well after reading so many negative reviews I am really surprised that people come make up problems almost about everything. One example reviewer did not understand why US people would care about finding evidence for extraterrestrial life because they do not care about climate change. Unrealistic. Seriously? Mmmh wouldn't it be the greatest thing in human history to find proof that life is not created by God and life can exist out of Earth? First, I do not get the connection plus every nation would care especially an UFO maniac country. I feel like people just want to complain about something.
Yes, the movie is not perfect, there are situations where scientists could have been wiser, also the ending with Vietnamese fishermen opening the pod is not that great ( I would leave out that scene from the movie). Still I think there are tolerable amount of mistakes in the script. I hope those people who are so fussy about this movie gave even worse reviews to the new Alien franchise as they are well below the standards of this movie in terms of rational decision making and creating the image of real scientists.
I enjoyed this movie and I truly believed they are real astronauts-scientists who try to follow some rules, though not perfectly. At least they applied some protective measures and did not do huge f*cking stupid mistakes like the ones in Prometheus or Covenant. The quarantine measures could have been more strict by applying more caution eg. using robotics for initial experiments, more isolation for the lab. Still, I can live with these issues and they did not ruin the whole movie. Also Alien did not even come to my mind during watching the film as Life has a totally different atmosphere e.g characters, narrative, action scenes. Yeah if you analyze you can find similarities in the story, new fast growing life form trying to terminate humans in the space. That is all. In my opinion it is a bit similar to Europa Report. As a side note I am a huge Alien fan (original films, not the new ones), so if a film tries to copy I would complain here. You can go into details then you find similar scenes, but then all horror movies copy of another.
Overall, I had fun, got the thrills and LIfe is a science fiction, not a horror, dying is just part of the game if you experiment with an unknown life form.