Life (Daniel Espinosa, 2017)

Neither fish nor fowl, Life takes the setting of Gravity on the International Space Station, and then superimposes Alien as the crew, as unwisely as in any horror film, decide to play around with a Martian microorganism until it turns into a tentacled monster and tries to kill them all. The initial realism does not serve the idea of an exponentially growing, intelligent predator that isn't bothered by a vacuum at all, and the film consequently becomes the usual checklist exercise in second-guessing the order in which the various ethnicities and genders on board are bumped off. A smart twist at the very end just isn't enough compensation.

5/10