Cliché after Cliché

Rating: 6/10 (26 March 2017)

Life is a movie filled with clichés and obvious scenes taken straight from Alien.
We have the usual science fiction cliché where scientists are going to bring an alien life form (that probably will kill all of mankind) into play no matter the cost. Of course, one of them will say that studying this alien may lead to the discovery of life and maybe even the cure for disease.
We have the usual cliché were one of the scientists will do anything to protect the alien even though it is killing his friends and may destroy all life - with the typical "if is just trying to survive" line.
In Alien: Dallas and Lambert are bringing back Kane after he is attacked by an alien. Ash lets them on the ship even though Ripley warns about contamination. In this movie, Hugh is attacked by the alien and Rory ignores all the warnings and enters the lab creating the chain of events to allow the alien to attack. Now, doesn't anyone wonder how the person in charge of security just allows this breach of protocol? Another science fiction cliché.
In Alien: Ash protects the creature by letting it live inside of Kane and does not tell anyone. In Life, Hugh lets the alien feed off of his body so that it can survive and does not tell anyone. Again with the idiotic scientist who wants to keep the alien alive to study it.
In Alien: somehow (the most ridiculous scene in a great movie) the alien knows Ripley is going to go onto the escape craft and is inside. In this one the alien is lured into the escape craft, but same premise.
In Alien: somehow the idiotic company makes an escape craft that will only fit three people - that was another dumb aspect of a great movie. In Life: there are two escape crafts, but only one person per craft. No space program is going to have an escape plan where only 2/6 can survive and the rest are left for dead. Another cliché.
In The Thing: an alien is frozen and in hibernation. The scientists go to study it and it thaws out and kills everyone. In life: the cell is frozen and in hibernation. The scientists thaw it out to study it and it kills people. Another cliché.
In Life: somehow the alien knows to knock out communications. Now I do not care how smart something is - it was a single celled organism at the beginning of the movie and no matter how intelligent it is - it does not have a grasp of technology in any way, shape or form. That this creature figures out how to get to the communication array from the lab is a joke - that it knows to knock out communications is a joke - that it knows to destroy the coolant in the commander's space suit to create a situation to get back onto the ship - that it takes over the escape pod and flies it to Earth - these are the things that are insulting at times to viewers. Another cliché about super smart aliens who know everything.
So the question you have at the end is: why did this creature just go on a killing spree? Hugh says that it has to kill to survive - but why? It was not eating them to survive - it was just killing for the sake of destruction and chaos. Even in Alien - it had a reason - it was taking people to reproduce. In the Thing - it was on a mission to take over the planet. There is no reason in this film.
On a positive - the film looked good and it was good for a late night rental if you enjoy the genre. It is nothing original and the script (and acting) will not redefine anything about science fiction. It is not a classic type movie that you will look back on in time and it will not be influential for future movies.