Not for you if...

Rating: 5/10 (10 December 2017)

This movie is not for you if you're the type to yell at the TV (or movie screen) if you think someone on the TV is doing something stupid... Based on the written reviews, it seems there's lots of people out there like that. There are a lot of similarities in plot to Alien so it's natural comparisons will be drawn. I'll focus on the differences.
First, there's no comparison to the performance of Sigourney Weaver. However, as for the rest of the crew, many people complained about the character development in Life. While it's been a while since I've seen Alien, I can't say that I really recall a lot of character development in the rest of the crew in Alien. In fact, I thought there was decent character development in Life to build some connection with each of the characters.
Secondly, the story in Life is set in present day, not in some future where there's a crew making interplanetary space travel.Thus, it makes the story a bit more real. And since the story was set on the International Space Station, the filming of the crew moving around in zero gravity in the space station were excellent.
And finally, the alien itself. In Life, there is no artist like H.R. Giger to create what the alien looks like, so again, no comparison. Many were criticizing how the alien create looked like as if we have any way of knowing what an alien life form like that would really look like. Wouldn't all those reviewers be pretty embarrassed if we some day find out that the interpretation of what an alien life form would look like in Life is spot on.
So considering the above, the movie Life is mediocre compared to Alien, but that's what the IMDb rating shows anyway. Having said that, the ending was quite disappointing. First, cinematography-wise, the capsule landing in the ocean looked like it was filmed using cinematography techniques from the 1950s or 1960s. Then, the ending itself was quite a disappointment and rather predictable. An ending like that is quite a cop out. If they did a hundred variations to the ending, the actual ending is probably in the bottom 5. It's as if they had two days left to write the ending to the movie and film it.