Lifeless

Rating: 4/10 (10 September 2017)

Life was disappointing, even with my low expectations since I'd not seen this movie advertised in theatres at all. The only good thing about Life is that they knew it was not even a grade B film, so they edited it down to a short 1 hr 40 mins.
The story is simple. Space station gets samples from Mars that turn out to be something dangerous. It's just like a horror film waiting for who gets killed next. This alien is another take on Alien's well-worn monster except they keep saying how smart it is. One by one, bad stuff happens.
Meanwhile, the actors sleepwalk their way thru this mess. Jake Gyllenhaal must've know he was miscast as a scientist because he had zero believability, even in this one scene where he cried, it was terrible acting. All the crying scenes left me crying from how fake they were. Rebecca Ferguson from Mission Impossible was horrible too. Besides her fake crying, with horrible music, even her horror at the monster was just bad acting.
The music was bad. Ominous black cloud music that didn't synch well with the scenes. Even the end had me laughing when the final song was Spirit in the sky, and I thought, what? Is this a 1970's Vietnam war movie? Bad stuff.
The only breath of hope was Ryan Reynolds who was given his comfortable role of group comedian, just like he was as Deadpool. Unfortunately, his role ended up being minor. He might have helped save the day.
Bad script, bad acting, bad music. Just bad. What this movie needed was a hero. Someone who was a military presence who was going to take it to the bad guy. but alas, there was no such character, which in a space station just amazed me.
You can skip this disaster. I only give it a 4 for some mild intrigue, but once the action gets going, it goes downhill fast. This movie was lifeless. Suggest you skip or rent it for free from your library with expectations set to low.