Monday, July 17, 2017

Movie #1359 ........................."Life"

Movie #1359 "Life"  -- a sci fi thriller with Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhall?  How could I resist that?  However, it is scary, like "Alien", and bloody like Tarrentino films, with floaty people like "Gravity" and doom and gloom, like "Passengers."  So my point?  I felt it was pretty weak because it was so much like other films...... But it was overall weaker than many of them because  it had a thin plot, and even  thinner characterization.  It just moved from one bloody attack to the next, with not much depth of character --- nothing really to pull me in to the film.    Of course, I care bout Ryan Reynolds, but it shouldn't be that way to be a successful film emotionally --- we should care about the "characters" that are presented, and this film leaves no time for that.  So Yes, the bloodiness works , but the action is all the same and we, as a watcher, don't really care about these characters.

"LIFE"     2017          1 hr and 43 minutes                  i'd give this 3.8 out of 5 stars


Humans have long considered the possibility of life on Mars. So, when an International Space Station crew discovers a one-celled organism in a sample from the red planet, they're ecstatic -- until the tiny life-form displays a freakish intelligence.

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