LIFE puts beautiful people in space, then tries to kill them
by Lee Hutchinson from Ars Technica - All content on (#2CX6M)
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We've had our eye on Columbia Pictures' LIFE ever since the first trailer dropped back in October. In the film-due in theaters on March 24-a six-person crew of scientists and astronauts aboard a souped-up movie version of the International Space Station intercept a Mars sample return probe; on examination, the probe appears to have brought back at least one viable cell of life from the surface of Mars.
The visuals of a crew working on and in a near-future International Space Station had that same feeling of verisimilitude that made Gravity so compelling to watch-but the movie's premise seemed to undermine the visuals' attempts at accuracy. Because, of course, that single cell of life quickly transforms into a space monster and starts killing people.
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