Reviewing Everything

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My greatest hope for this film was that Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhall would make out. I was let down. My second greatest hope was that "Life" would be entertaining; again I was let down. Most of the film's action relies on information explained awkwardly as the film unfolds. I kept finding myself going, "why is this happening." Action fans will be bored. Drama fans will be underwhelmed. "Alien" fans could go either was, as the "life" in this film is essentially a white starfish/octopus version of the goop from "Prometheus." Go rewatch "Aliens" if you want a space action film, and "Gravity" if you want a space drama. If that's not enough, watch "Interstellar," but don't bother with "Life."

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Unnamed man raised in utter darkness and deprived of human contact is released into the world as social experiment. Unfortunately, the film raises more questions than it answers, but I applaud it's ambitious and clever twists, despite ultimately underwhelming results. Bug Hall and Lily Gladstone give compelling performances in a mostly underdeveloped film. Most problems could be solved with a bigger budgets, or a logic check. Worth watching.