The first thing Life has successfully proven is: space horror is still helluva sub-genre. While most space-themed films recently focus on breaking more grounds with cerebral sci-fi euphoria, Daniel Espinosa's latest feature confidently takes a retro influence to remind us of that notion.
Life opens with approx. 7-minute continuous shot (that suddenly reminds me to Gravity's opening) revolving around the space-life of 6 crew members of ISS, who at one night make the greatest breakthrough in humanity's space voyage history: an organic evidence of extraterrestrial form in Mars. The alien ...
