A Very Big Missed Opportunity

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2017)

This review contains spoilers.
From the previews I saw, I was expecting an intense, suspenseful sci/fi horror movie along the lines of "Alien" and "Aliens." Sadly, this movie comes nowhere near the brilliance of those two flicks.
Its biggest failing is that it doesn't give you any three-dimensional characters. There's no one to root for here, so it really didn't mean much to me when the alien picked off crew members one by one. It also doesn't help that the characters do completely illogical things when facing an increasingly hostile alien organism. In one glaring instance, one of the astronauts is outside the space station with the alien attached to her body and methodically killing her. This woman could save the rest of her crew and keep the thing from reaching earth by simply pushing herself away from the station and drifting off into space. But no, she hangs on to the hatch, twisting away at some gear to keep the people inside from opening the door, when again, all she has to do is push away and take the alien with her.
Last but not least, I figured out the ending halfway through the movie, and I hated it. There are some decently suspenseful moments in "Life" but not enough of them, and definitely not enough logic. This isn't anything I have to see again. Instead, I'll just watch "Alien" and "Aliens" when I'm in the mood for some really good sci/fi horror.