Alien Lite

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2017)

I saw "Life", starring Jake Gyllenhaal-Nocturnal Animals, End of Watch; Ryan Reynolds-Deadpool, The Proposal; Rebecca Ferguson-The Girl on the Train, Mission:Impossible_Rogue Nation and Hiroyuki Sanada-The Last Ship_tv, The Wolverine.
This is a sci_fi thriller that has some similarities to the classic movie, Alien. I guess you could call it Alien Lite. Jake, Ryan, Rebecca and Hiroyoki are 4 of the 6 crew members aboard an international space station that are collecting samples from the red planet, Mars. What they discover is far worse than anything they figured on. It is a microscopic, single_celled organism that begins growing rapidly and it decides to take over the ship, using the present crew members as lunch. The creature is given the nickname of Calvin and he has the body of a squid-with all the tentacles-and the face of one of the creatures from Alien. This extraterrestrial life form is believed to have caused the extinction of all life on Mars. After several unsuccessful attempts at exterminating Calvin fail, the crew members decide that they must keep Calvin from reaching Earth, at any costs. It's got a good cast and plenty of suspense but just not much originality, as far as the plot goes. It's rated "R" for language, sci_fi violence and terror and has a running time of 1 hour & 43 minutes. I enjoyed it enough that I would probably buy it on DVD.