Not entirely original; it gets sillier as it goes on and can't maintain interest, either.

Rating: 5/10 (20 February 2018)

'Life (2017)' isn't entirely original, instead constantly feeling like familiar territory ('Alien (1979)' isn't the most unique thing to ape, at that), and it doesn't have much story to hold its run-time either. There are some decently suspenseful sequences and every character is refreshingly expendable, though. Its set-up is far more interesting than its pay-off and it is, at times, surprisingly callous. It struggles to maintain interest, however, becoming increasingly silly (the alien 'evolves' to literally look like a plant-based Pokemon) and stagnant towards the final act, and as such lacks impact overall. 5/10