LIFE
Recommended. A hell of a space thriller. You actually expect a slaughter when one of the astronauts jokes about "Re-Animator" in the context of their alien specimen, similarly as elderly weirdos tend to warn teenagers in the beginning of a horror. A spaceship is a perfect setting to convey a sense of isolation as shown in the original "Alien" or in "Gravity" so it works equally well for the cross between the two. Made to keep you on the edge of your seat rather than to be food for thought, it dabbles in the questions of aggression: is it a response to violent manhandling, or is it a predatory instinct? The cast is multinational and multiracial. The music by Jon Ekstrand is excellent both as the movie soundtrack and in its own right. The tongue-in-cheek joyful song after the last scene (part two looks inevitable) slightly eases the strong tension you're in throughout the film. If you don't leave then, you hear fantastic music extending over the credits which puts you back in the mood. I had a feeling something creepy might be lurking between the cinema seats.
CARRIE PILBY
Watchable. I took to the film as soon as I realized how much the main protagonist resembles me years ago: a bookworm, with incredible knowledge, socially inept, with family issues, seeing a psychologist, resisting manipulation by guys who are just after sex, at professional crossroads right after the best uni in the country, making friends by chance, not exactly into fashion, with strong integrity and totally geeky. OK, her IQ of 185 beats mine and I've never had photograhic memory. But in all it's quite realistic, very well acted, with a few brilliant lines and easy to follow. Of course you want a fairy-tale ending and you get just that. Too geeky to blow me away though.
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