Fascinating premise, poorly executed.

Rating: 3/10 (4 June 2017)

**** WARNING SPOILERS BELOW ****
I saw all the hoopla surrounding the release of LIFE and thoroughly enjoyed the interviews with Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal which I'm sure a lot of people have and I was immediately excited. Marketed like a second coming of the ALIEN franchise, and it had Ryan Reynolds attached as well as other very accomplished actors. I had high hopes, but they were sorely crushed 20 minutes into the film.
For people who have been in space, one of them for 400+ days straight, they seem to have lost logical thinking. Considering they've created several firewalls to prevent this thing from reaching Earth, it boggles my mind why they make it so easy for the alien life form to whip their butts.
Not to mention the fact that leaving a fellow astronaut without communication and no idea of where the alien is, would be prone to be a big issue. Case in point when Sho somehow knows the Soyuz is coming "to the rescue" and have no idea about the third firewall? Shouldn't that be information available to all crew? This is not Weyland-Yutani - and they've all agreed the life form must not reach Earth... Ugh. Annoys the heck out of me.
The ending, while I do enjoy the occasional disaster ending. This would have been a lot more satisfying, had they done everything right on the ISS and that the life form was just outsmarting them at every turn. Instead, they did all the wrong things, and effectively put Earth in danger... I wouldn't say I saw the ending coming, but by the end I just actually didn't care anymore. Maybe this movie was for Aliens and we should just let them be? :D