Well, that's Life.......

Rating: 7/10 (1 February 2018)

A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station mission of discovery turns to one of fear....
They find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth......
Of course there are similarities to Alien, because that's what it is, nothing more than a remake of that, just with that added star power, that sadly doesn't really go a long way in this.
The build up is good enough, an amoeba type lifeform is found, and those silly, amazingly intelligent scientists decide to treat it like a pet, so blobby, as I'm calling it, decides to turn from Mogwai to Gremlin, and takes over the ship, growing bigger by the minute.
With the build up, we have Reynolds, in full sarcastic mode, using lines that ended up on Deadpool's cutting room floor, and really bringing titular life to the proceedings.
While all the while Gyllenhaal is doing very little.
Moving forward, blobby, takes a shine to one of the crew, holding his hand a little too hard, so Reynolds decides to help.
One Deep Blue Sea shock later, and now Gyllenhaal is in the metaphoric drivers seat............doing very little.
And so the rest of the film is blobby chasing the remainder of the crew down shafts and the crew shutting doors, just before blobby gets them.
This goes on for about an hour, whilst in the background, the crew back on earth are giving them a Life or a Death decision, and Gyllenhaal remains doing very little....
It's nothing we haven't seen before, it offers nothing new in the genre, but because of such an impressive opening thanks to Reynolds giving the film 'Life', and a very solemn ending, it sort of makes up for a lifeless second act.
Not terrible by any stretch, just very unoriginal.