Incredibly bad

Rating: 2/10 (31 October 2017)

This movie is horrible for all of the reasons mentioned by other reviewers and they are spot on. I'll just add a few thoughts.
Personally, I will give a movie wide latitude on believability as long as said movie is enjoyable to watch. I remember watching The Revenant a few months back and nitpicking here and there, but you know what? We don't have a movie if the director/writer isn't allowed to venture out a bit. Unfortunately, Life just tosses all reason out the window and then the complaining starts...during the movie.
I've seen one other film by this director and it was terrible as well. Child 44 from the book which I thoroughly enjoyed. He managed to turn that one into a snooze fest and inexplicably deviated from the book plot line which I thought was very original. How this guy keeps getting directing gigs, I don't know.
I say this over and over in my reviews, but good movies are just a giant collection of great scenes...memorable scenes. This one literally has not one. Just complete lameness throughout. Prometheus was a weak movie, but it was pretty grotesque and horrifying. Not here. I think my favorite scene is the Soyuz smashing into the ISS. Go figure.
Life is rated R. To me, that means you can dispense with the schmaltzy story lines meant to captivate all viewer groups like we see in most PG films. I couldn't care less about the pregnant wife, daddy lines, etc.
The creature has to be one of the lamest aliens ever in a sci-fi movie. Yes, later on it's a direct ripoff of Prometheus. Everyone is afraid of tentacles, so I can let that go. But watching a white banana peel chasing the crew members around looks just stupid. This is unforgivable in my opinion, because the makers of Life could have gone in any direction and they chose the wimpiest looking alien I've ever seen. Of course, if you make the alien indestructible, incredibly strong, intelligent... you get the idea.
I can go on and on, but just wanted to say a few different things about Life other than how unbelievable it was, which is very true. Seriously though, give me two A-list actors and a $60 million budget and I could beat this miserable garbage into the dirt.