Life: Alien Remake? Almost, But Still Good

Rating: 8/10 (16 June 2017)

Since I saw the first trailer I immediately recognized this as a direct copy from the classic that is Alien. This movie sure has some elements in common but it can stand at his own delivering a very entertaining movie, but sadly, always on the shadow of the Xenomorph.
It tells the story of six astronauts who are on an exploration on Mars and they discover a little living cell that ends up carrying them a lot of problems. This is the classic mysterious creature in space threatening the life of the astronauts but it's still well introduced and it keeps the tension enough to keep you staring at the movie through its whole duration.
The cast was very good but some of them were not well used and the relationship between them was not very well established, but specially Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebbeca Ferguson did a very good job. One thing of the story I didn't get was, why they bring the alien to the ship and why was that ship floating around? This is not explained. What really happened before the movie and I think this should have been explained better so it would have been a bit more interesting.
The design of the alien, although not great it was very good and anytime you see it sneaking around you start fearing of the life of one of the crew members, as well as all the visuals used for recreating the space and the ship. Also the soundtracks was very effective and added a lot to help to create this tension, but also it added feelings to the most emotional parts of it.
I would recommend you this movie if you want to watch an entertaining movie with great visuals and a very good cast.