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There’s also the constant, insistent score by Jon Ekstrand, bearing down right from the opening and not doing much for the cause. The other effects and settings are solid but unextraordinary, although the hiccupped blood bubbles that float around after escaping from Calvin’s victims are a nice ghoulish touch. And without that you’re always going to suffer by comparison. But early on I thought, let’s face it, it ain’t Giger. Eventually it grows into a tentacled cross between a mutant lotus and an irritated cobra. At first it’s kind of like a living version of those icky sticky wall-tumbling toys. One of the bigger-name crew members does get to play (spoiler alert, sort of) a reprise of the Steven Seagal role in “ Executive Decision.” That’s because little Calvin suddenly starts growing awful fast. You may remember the nickname “Dead Meat” from “Hot Shots,” or the phrase “Bantha Fodder” from one of the “ Star Wars” movies. Two other crew members are played by Olga Dihovichnaya and Hiroyuki Sanada, the latter back in space for the first time since Danny Boyle’s 2007 “Sunshine.” Science dude Hugh ( Ariyon Bakare), paralyzed from the waist down, loves zero gravity conditions, and initially loves the single-cell organism (named “Calvin” by a group of contest-winning schoolchildren down on home sweet Earth) he’s wrested from a sample of Martian soil. Cautious medical officer David, played by an often bug-eyed Jake Gyllenhaal, is initially the fella who says things like “We weren’t trained for this.” Rebecca Ferguson’s Miranda plays den mother to him and others.

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Ryan Reynold’s cocky Roy is the cowboy of the bunch he goes on a spacewalk to catch an off-course capsule full of research materials straight from Mars. The picture takes place almost entirely on a claustrophobic, labyrinthine space station director Espinosa and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey have a lot of fun in the early scene “floating” the camera along with the space station crew.

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While this movie is funny, due to the continuous use of profanity, taking of the Lord’s name in vain, the comical view of breaking most of the ten commandments, as well as two murders that are actually quite graphic for a comedy, I would recommend spending money on a less offensive comedy.As such, “Life” struck me as several cuts above “meh” but never made me jump out of my seat.

On a positive side, the storytelling and the film’s unique method of showing the passage of time does merit commendation! Most likely “Life” will get a strong endorsement from the secular community due to the political correctness of the film.

Murder, however, is portrayed as wrong, but in the end even murder is okayed in certain given situations. Lying, alcohol use, theft, bootlegging, gambling, fornication, and homosexuality are all shown as acceptable, unfortunately.

The movie consists of their schemes and attempts to escape, while also studying relationships between the prisoners (though it lacks depth, but after all this is only a comedy). The story traces 40+ years of incarceration as two innocent men serve a life sentence for a crime they didn’t commit. “Life” is a funny and poignant story of two blacks unjustly imprisoned for life in a 1930s Mississippi work camp. As would be expected, though, the use of strong language and bad behavior to setup the punch lines marred the film. Overall, “Life” was a funny movie, but what else would you expect from Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.

Life 1999 analysis