An average by the numbers horror movie

Rating: 5/10 (9 August 2017)

When I saw the trailer for this film I thought to myself that it looked like a complete rip off of the film alien, now I have seen it and I believe my fears were very justified. The premise of the film sees a crew of scientists in space come into contact with an alien organism. Jake gyllenhall plays the lead in this film and he does an alright job, he is a top quality actor and he does his best with what he is given. But his character is really bland and not given anything to work with really, which is a complaint I have with pretty much every character in this film. Rebecca Ferguson is in this film and similar to gyllenhall she does a decent job despite the fact her character is pretty boring. Ryan Reynolds is in this film and he is easily the best part of this film, he provides his usual charismatic charm that makes him the one really likable person in this film. The rest of the cast are really underdeveloped and you won't really care about any of them. The story of the film is as mentioned before not original, you have seen it all before and there isn't really anything that stands out. That is except the ending which I really loved, no spoilers but it really was a unique interesting ending. The script started off pretty strong with some pretty decent witty dialogue especially from Reynolds. But the drama is very bland and I didn't care for the dramatic moments in the film. The style of this film does have some interesting sequences in it that can be quite thrilling. But then we come to the design of the organism which I didn't like at all, I just had no interest in its development or any of the science behind it. Overall life is a pretty average film that just isn't worth a watch just watch alien instead.