The official trailer for 'Life', starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds. Video: Sony Pictures <\/p>\n
Space hunk: Ryan Reynolds in Life <\/p>\n
Film Title: Life <\/p>\n
Director: Daniel Espinosa <\/p>\n
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya <\/p>\n
Genre: Sci-Fi <\/p>\n
Running Time: 104 min <\/p>\n
A starry crew aboard the International Space Station sends a snark-talking Ryan Reynolds to snaffle a space probe returning from Mars with soil samples. Mission accomplished, lead scientist Hugh (Ariyon Bakare) pokes at the specimen until, oops, it transforms into a vagina-gremlin-starfish-monster that starts picking the crew off one by one. <\/p>\n
Using a fabulously opportunistic bluff, Life screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have refused to rule out the possibility that Life is a prequel to Venom. Theyre talking about the incoming Spider-Man spin-off, but, having sat through their new space opera, we could have sworn they were talking about Venom, the 1981 Alien knock-off, featuring a black mamba in lieu of Aliens tentacled genital-faced extra-terrestrials. <\/p>\n
Life, to tell the unhappy truth, looks awfully like a prequel to an Alien clone. Except set in space. And featuring tentacled, genital-faced extra-terrestrials. You see the problem, here? <\/p>\n
The familiarities dont end there. Rebecca Fergusons security-obsessed doctor plays awfully like Tasha Yar fan-fiction from someone who never actually got around to watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Picture the Chief Security Officer of the USS Enterprise-D minus the charm, intellect or charisma.) <\/p>\n
Mostly, Ferguson is stuck on repeat as she repeatedly explains what is going on, repeatedly: Theres a monster in the vents. Got it? <\/p>\n
Overlapping dialogue makes it tricky to tell one under-developed character from another, although we do discern the odd howler of a line (This is some Re-Animator shit) and reliable old frantic Jake Gyllenhaal of Source Code fame. <\/p>\n
There is some good news on the tech specs. The recycled plot is very much at odds with Seamus McGarveys knockout floating cinematography, Nigel Phelps multi-dimensional space station designs, and (Safe House) director Daniel Espinosas aptitude for white-knuckle runarounds. <\/p>\n
Arriving in the same season as Alien: Covenant, Life may well prove the superior Alien rip-off. Get your Alien counterfeits: five for twenty. Apparently, in space no one can hear you plagiarise. <\/p>\n
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See the original post: The official trailer for 'Life', starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds. Video: Sony Pictures Space hunk: Ryan Reynolds in Life Film Title: Life Director: Daniel Espinosa Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya Genre: Sci-Fi Running Time: 104 min A starry crew aboard the International Space Station sends a snark-talking Ryan Reynolds to snaffle a space probe returning from Mars with soil samples. Mission accomplished, lead scientist Hugh (Ariyon Bakare) pokes at the specimen until, oops, it transforms into a vagina-gremlin-starfish-monster that starts picking the crew off one by one Continue reading
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