Try to remember that this is in space

Rating: 5/10 (28 January 2018)

Life is about a team of astronauts on the international space station on a mission to investigate what they believe could be new form of life discovered on Mars. Through fiddling and adjusting the climatic conditions they are able to bring life back into the organism. It is subsequently affectionately known as Kelvin. But the floppy leaf like creature grows and becomes more squid like, escapes and starts attacking and feeding on the crew.
There have been a few space movies out in recent years, Gravity and The Martian both exceptional films. But I wouldn't hold Life in the same esteem or even in the same generic bracket. Gravity and The Martian do a fantastic job of establishing the sense of isolation, futility and vulnerability of space, so far from civilisation, as they say no one can here you scream. If things go wrong, you really are on your own. You don't get that sense with Life, it easy to forget sometimes that it is actually set in space. Not helped that on a fair few occasions the crew don't seem to floating about at all (like you would be in the space station) but just standing about. There is no talk of a new fangled artificial gravity machine that you get in some space films to get over this hurdle, just seems like they hoped we wouldn't notice.
The films has more of a connection with The Poseidion Adventure, running around the ship to escape the water, or even Deep Blue Sea. As it is fresh in mind I saw a lot of comparison with The Grey that I saw earlier in the week. Instead of escaping the wolves, slowly cutting down the numbers here its alien lifeform. So it's like The Grey, but I prefer The Grey.