Grade C
Manny’s Movie Musings: astronauts do the dumbest things and start messing with an alien lifeform that is evolving at a fast rate; and when things start to go bad they just forget basic safety precautions and containment procedures. The victims’ deaths are somewhat interesting; the evolution of the alien is somewhat interesting. “Somewhat interesting” should not be the result of a $58 million movie. Adding more misery to “Life” is the inevitable comparison to “Alien,” a masterpiece of a movie. Whoever greenlit “Life” for production probably has no life left in his career in the movie business.
— M
