Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Life (on DVD)

Life
[DVD Life] 

This space thriller stars Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal. A group of scientists on the International Space Station send a probe to Mars and it comes back with a sample including a single celled organism that they decide to try to bring to life. After performing some experiments on it it does in fact come to life and seems friendly, however something goes wrong with the chamber it’s held in and it stops moving. To bring it back to life one of the scientists decides to shock it and it doesn’t take too kindly to it. Suddenly its mission is to kill all aboard so the movie follows their hope for survival while trying to keep the station from entering earth’s atmosphere and bringing the creature into our world. This movie was terrifying and disgusting. It has a very slow start so you have to stick with it, but once the creature starts killing people and gets bigger and bigger after each kill the scenes get more intense.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Alien, Interstellar, Contact, The Martian, Arrival or The Thing] [ Internet Movie Database entry for this film ] | [ official Life (Movie) web site ]

Recommended by Carrie K.
Bennett Martin Public Library

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