The characters here look gray boring monotonous crowd. Their backstory and disclosure are “showed” through their own dialogues, such as “I don’t have my legs working, I feel complete in space,” or “I love the station more than I love Earth because I was in Iraq.” These little unoriginal confessions get into the plot suddenly and without any connection with what is happening around, which makes them look ridiculous way to delay timekeeping.
Since the film refers to itself as a horror, it has a couple of inherent in the genre stamps. The stupidest and most annoying. At the station, which was created for many years of successful work, the most modern and high-tech, prepared for a lot of unforeseen situations and certainly adapted for safe and productive study of foreign mold (since it was brought there), devices begin to fail. One by one and just when they are needed most. The fire extinguishing system refuses to obey, communications with the Earth are cut off, fuel is suddenly running out. And the “scientists” themselves poke the alien with their hands (!), not a remote-controlled robot.
The story is almost entirely based on such nonsense. "Live" tries to be a smart and tense film, but in fact it turns out to be stupid and boring. Tension is lost among long dull dialogues, alien mold does not scare, the deaths of the characters are too monotonous and boring, the characters are cardboard and unforgettable. The best specialists of the planet, faced with an evil alien bug, begin to behave like small children – and let’s wake him up, and let’s poke a stick at him, and let’s burn him, using up the last fuel reserves. All these foolish actions lead, of course, to the death of heroes. And looking at how quickly they drop out of the plot, I want not to empathize with them, but to touch hand to face.
The film resembles both “Aliens” and “Gravity” only without a beautiful visual series, tension, intrigue, worked out the main character and empathy for him. And no cat. Of course, it was not the cat that made Alien a good film, but with it, Living would look a little more alive.
4 out of 10
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