Exactly what you expect...but not in a bad way!

Rating: 8/10 (1 June 2017)

Contains Minor Spoilers
So I hadn't really heard or seen anything about the film Life other than it was pretty good and was a sci-fi film. So I was pretty open minded going into it which is hard to do considering the rate at which they are pumping out sci-fi movies these days...just when you thought the superhero genre was being milked dry...
Anyway, as my summary states: Life is exactly what you expect it to be but not in a bad way. This isn't the first film and it won't be the last to adopt the idea of a space crew who find something that then tries to kill them. Even the "twists" in this film are about as predicable as the phases of the moon's cycle!
That being said, the acting in this film (with a couple of exceptions) is pretty spot on! The special effects are very good and while the storyline itself is wildly overplayed, the excitement and tension still manage to be raised to a pretty high standard.
I found one thing that this film did very well was make me feel uncomfortable. Whenever you watch a film with bugs and you get that feeling of something crawling on you. Imagine that but rather than a bug it's an alien species. The death scenes are brutal and add to the sense of discomfort I felt by watching this film (in comparison I can watch the Saw films while eating food and not remotely feel put off).
I'd say if you've come looking for the next Interstellar then you should keep looking...but if you enjoyed Alien (or the millions of sequels/prequels) or Sunshine or any of these sort of films then you should definitely give this one a go.