To keep it short. The sheer stupidity of the characters ruin the entire movie. How is it possible that extremely emotion driven people could end up on a space station worth 200 billion dollars? The movie is an ongoing trainwreck with some redeeming qualities. Great visuals and promising idea (even if it's a ripoff from Alien) but the script and characters just ruin it. Giving it a 5/10 but that's pushing it.

I literally stood there yelling how STUPID every one of the so called brilliant scientists/astronauts would do something so insanely illogical and haphazardly. I will not spoil it by describing anything, but yeah, I was glad I watched it and I continue to watch it whenever I see its on. Strangely, no one in my family will watch it with me because I continue to stand up and yell. I'm always extremely satisfied with the outcome.

I don't know who's dumber, the writers of this movie or the "scientists" in it.Those Nobel Prize wannabees will :Assess that this extraterrestrial life form evolves extremely fast and can replicate any kind of cell which probably includes those of nails, stingers, teeth or things that could pierce latex, yet they will still play with this alien with those flimsy gloves like some kids would do with modeling clay.Introduce piercing elements inside a chamber only protected with plastic gloves (so the piercing elements conveniently pierces them and contaminates the nearby chamber)Touch potentially infected corpses without even using gloves.spread contamination across the station then to Earth by using various dumb methods.The rest of the movie consists of useless cliché filler scenes not even worth commenting.

Continuing the lineage of films such as "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (1958) and "Alien" (1979), "Life" finds a group of spacefarers dealing with a malignant, and apparently unstoppable, predatory life-form prowling around their ship (in this case, the International Space Station) and gradually thinning out the crew. All of the action is in/around the ISS's 'zero-G' environment, which is very well done, and provides an opportunity for a novel and imaginative creature design. The film has some pacing problems, with interludes of dialogue (about the children's book for example) dulling the mounting tension and there too many plot holes (see 'goofs' section) to get really caught up in the story. The behavior of the alien is inconsistent and its capabilities vague and 'convenient' (for example, it needs oxygen yet can survive in a vacuum when the plot needs it to do so). I also found the tension quickly deflated every time the characters referred to the predatory Martian as "Calvin" (I don't know why the writers indulged in this conceit, can you imagine "Alien" with Ripley and Dallas scouring the 'Nostromo' with flame throwers looking for a 'Calvin'?). Unfortunately, "Life" is like a lot of recent big CGI-driven spectaculars, great to look at as long as you don't think too much about what you are seeing.