LIFE (Life, Origine Inconnue), Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life on MARS

USPA NEWS - 'Life' (Life, origine inconue - French title) is a 2017 American science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa. The film follows a six-member crew of the International Space Station that uncovers what initially seems to be the first evidence of life on Mars...

'Life' (Life, origine inconue - French title) is a 2017 American science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa. The film follows a six-member crew of the International Space Station that uncovers what initially seems to be the first evidence of life on Mars.

Directed by : Daniel Espinosa
Produced by : David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn
Written by : Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick
Starring : Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya
Distributed by : Comumbia Pictures
Release Dates : March 18, 2017 ( South by Southwest), March 24, 2017 (United States), April 19, 2017 (France)
Running Time : 103 minutes

THE STORY

The six-member International Space Station (ISS) crew capture a probe returning from Mars with a soil sample that might contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. Exobiologist Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) revives a dormant cell from the sample, and it quickly grows into a multi-celled organism that American school children name 'Calvin'. Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson), who is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention translates : Calvin can simultaneously be all muscle, all brain and all eye. 'Calvin', at first playfully curious toward Hugh, turns hostile after a moment of human error...

OUR REVIEW

The movie, having started so promisingly, quickly settles for becoming yet another clone of 'Alien' as space members play a deadly game of hide-and-seek with a shape-shifting Martian. The primary suspense comes from wondering whether the killings will follow the reverse order of star billing. The scientists on board were hoping that they can extract some organic matter from the sample and, perhaps, synthesize or restore a living organism, in order to prove that we are not alone in this terrible and tumbling universe... This is familiar narrative DNA.

The cast forms a credible team, possessed of an easy camaraderie and actually seeming like smart, capable professionals. 'Life' isn´t just about making a landmark discovery that could provide clues to life´s nature, its origin or even its meaning... it is also about the biological imperative for survival, and the way in which even the cleverest humans will ignore their training in order to prevent their own deaths, and those of the people they care about....

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