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Life (18)
“Lost in space” seems to be a trend in Hollywood right now. Hot on the heels of Passengers and not long after Interstellar and Gravity, the twin talents of Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds tackle another stratospheric disaster movie.
The premise of Life, though, offers more comparisons with Alien than those wide-open-space adventures.
It revolves around the crew of the International Space Station who have been tasked with capturing a probe sent out to Mars and studying the samples that is has retrieved from the surface.
As the title implies, what they discover in the canisters is an organism, and one that rapidly gains in both size and intelligence – “all muscle, all brain” in the words of crew member Miranda Bragg (Rebecca Ferguson) – before deciding it really rather dislikes its new companions.
When they suspect it was behind the eradication of life on Mars, the crew become locked in a battle to keep it from entering the Earth’s orbit, where more havoc would undoubtedly ensue.
Cue pictures of cast with their children. It’s pretty functional, predictable stuff, with plenty of action-movie tropes – at one point Ryan Reynolds really does bellow “I’m going in!”.
But like the best movies in this genre, it blends the claustrophobic with the agoraphobic; the suffocating tube-like corridors of the space station in which
much of the action takes place contrasts with the vastness of the universe and their unnerving distance from home.
The horror that unfolds is doubly inescapable; like being confronted with a fire on the 48th floor of a skyscraper. The only thing worse than being inside is being outside. And the alien feels much the same way.
In cinemas from March 23