This starry bottle movie of a smart and relentless Martian organism wreaking havoc on a space station feels very familiar indeed (Alien and Gravity inevitably loom large), but Life has a couple of reasonable twists on the formula up its sleeve, including some moderate body horror and a brave ending. With a cast of this calibre, there is a clear attempt to engage with the characters' emotional responses to situations (with Jake Gyllenhaal succeeding best), but ultimately this is a fairly routine cat-and-mouse space-set creature-feature-thriller. It seems a shame that Sony did not stump up the cash for a 3D conversion, which would have made some of the visuals really pop, but as this is an adult-targeted drama that was unlikely to happen.
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