Decent sci-fi horror

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2017)

Sci-fi horror is an awesome genre and Life is a decent addition with solid alien terror in a claustrophobic space station. The movie begins quickly with the crew of the International Space Station catching a flying vessel that contained samples from Mars. All of the information is relayed through voice-over by Commander Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) to drop us into the plot and get the alien terror rolling. The movie takes a bit to let us know the crew as David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) deals with being in space for a record amount of time, Sho Murakami (Hiroyuki Sanada) celebrates the birth of his child, and scientist Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) experiments and becomes enamored with the alien creature named Calvin. He becomes so obsessed with it that he accidentally breaks quarantine and the alien goes into hibernation.
As the Hugh tries to wake it up it strikes back and breaks his hand, wise-cracking spacewalker Rory Adams (Ryan Reynolds) moves in to get him out of there but is viciously attacked by the growing creature. Worried about it escaping the laboratory, Sho and Commander Ekaterina Golovkina (Olga Dihovichnaya) try to shut down the vents but are unsuccessful at sealing the room. The alien only becomes stronger as it picks off the crew members who work to capture and contain it.
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