Utterly appalling attempt at a remake of a GREAT movie

Rating: 3/10 (5 July 2017)

Thankfully, it's rare that we see such an appallingly bad remake of a classically good movie. It's very obvious that "Life" was supposed to be an updated remake of the classic Ridley Scott original "Alien" which was a stunningly good movie, especially for its time, well before CGI and all the other stuff that's available to film-makers now.
By way of background, I was 24 when the original Alien movie was made (in 1979). That was the year that my new wife was born. Not so long ago, we watched "Alien" together and, to say the very least, she was underwhelmed, I assume because of its subtlety and quiet build-up of the tension that's so much required in a GOOD SF movie. Younger people (well, younger than me anyway) demand and expect explicit shocks and in yer face horror; they just don't understand the subtlety of Alien and other movies like the original Blair Witch and others such as "Full Circle" (aka "The Haunting Of Julia"). They want the obvious; they want "blood and gore and veins in ma teeth", they want heroics, they want a love story, they want human sacrifice, they want all the usual scripted s**t.
I guess that's why "Life", the unutterably bad load of old tripe that this is, got the go-ahead to be made.
The premise and the construction of "Life" is almost identical to that of the original "Alien" but without the suspense, the logic, the scientific underpinning that's necessary to make a truly good SF movie (as the original was).
It was all so very obvious that this was an unashamed remake of Alien. I felt quite insulted by the glaring gaps in credibility, the terrible and woeful acting and the shockingly clichéd script of "Life" to even pretend in any way to have enjoyed seeing it.
Please, don't waste your time with this lot of s**t. Just by-pass it and go for the original "Alien" (and forget about the appallingly bad sequels to that one too). Life left the door wide open to a sequel. I WILL MOST CERTAINLY NOT be waiting for that one.
JMV