'Life' Doesn't Quite Find A Way
In space, no one can hear you yawn: Technically impressive but dramatically airless, this monster flick set on the International Space Station is powered by "space-movie cliches old and new."
"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence," Chief Medical Officer Leonard "Bones" McCoy once lamented. And that was on Star Trek, far and away the most optimistic vision of humanity's spacefaring destiny ever presented onscreen.
Far more prevalent in movies is the sort of better-we-didn't pessimism peddled by a nasty in zero-G. It's with a hostile --and apparently intelligent — Martian jellyfish. Though the script is by scribes Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, and merc-with-a-mouth Ryan Reynolds gets top billing, there's not much intentional humor.
