I could not find any new idea, a waste of good actors

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2017)

I could not find any new idea, a waste of good actors
Premise: I very appreciate Daniel Espinosa's works. He's a young director but I can already notice his technical growth. He has not missed the rhythm and the adrenaline neither in his work "Safe House", nor in "Child 44". Furthermore, I cannot say whether he has been lucky or he had the right sponsors or he was just enough good in working with such actors as Denzel Washington, Tom Hardy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Ryan Reynolds, etc. (not in order of importance). I saw an evolution, from the adrenaline thrilling of a well acted Safe House to the epic/dramatic thrilling of Child 44, Masterfully interpreted by Tom Hardy, playing with a strong Russian accent all the movie. But here I stop. I did not see any originality in Life. I felt an agglomeration of special effects, of important but unrelated actors, monsters, without a true story before and without a real future after. During this superficial Horror/Fanta scientific tale, I could not notice anything original. The Alien from Mars does not need explanation, the destructive alien that aim to kill the species in order to survive itself, the alien the kills. Does it sound familiar? This work was a mix of many others, including some quotation of not-masterpiece-movies such as "Gravity". Aggravating the missing of originality, the choice of not deepening the character's profiles, quoting themselves during the most dramatic scenes, never giving a real pathos and drama along the movie. They have been given soon, they have no other dimension but the one in the spaceship, except during few moments not well integrated in the history, such as the one of the birth of one astronaut's child on earth. It's a 5 cause I still give chances to Daniel Espinosa and thanks to the huge investment done for this movie. Neither the good Jake nor the misspend Ryan could save it.