Life
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray

Director: Daniel Espinosa
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds
Plot: A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Disc Release Date: 20 June 2017
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all scores
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Life's Blu-ray generally looks just fine with a few caveats, but the UHD offers up a fairly sizable improvement and, at times, almost puts its 1080p counterpart to shame. The 2160p/HDR-enhanced image offers...
The short review: take the review for the Blu-ray's DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 lossless soundtrack, amplify the superlatives a bit with some overhead goodness, and consider that the review for this disc's...
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Life features a hodgepodge of featurettes and a few deleted scenes on the included Blu-ray disc. The UHD disc contains only the standard Sony extras: a few cast and crew still images and a collection of...
A strong upgrade in picture quality over the Blu-ray.Art imitates life, and Life imitates movies like Alien. It's not a poor man's recreation of Ridley Scott's genre masterpiece, but it is a derivative...
- Total70
Life may not captivate, but it offers just enough entertainment value to keep the viewer interested. It's as predictable as the day is long and the performances (and the script) are a drag, but the filmmakers...
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Astronauts make first contact via a beautiful and sometimes impressive HEVC H.265 encode in HDR10, delivering an upgrade over the Blu-ray. One of the biggest differences from its SDR counterpart is the...
Unfortunately, unlike the video, the Dolby Atmos soundtrack, which is exclusive to the UHD, doesn't offer as much a difference as its 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In fact, they are pretty comparable,...
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Life: In Zero G (HD, 7 min): Cast & crew interviews discussing the challenges of filming as though floating in space and maintaining the illusion mixed with lots of BTS footage throughout. Creating Life:...
In no unsubtle terms, Daniel Espinosa's Life aspires to be the next Alien. Or at the very least, owes a great deal to the Ridley Scott sci-fi horror classic, practically mimicking the 1979 film both visually...
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Taking inspiration from Ridley Scott's classic Alien, Daniel Espinosa's Life surprises with a well-paced and deceptively entertaining sci-fi thriller that features a good deal of drama and characterization...
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For its presentation in Ultra HD, Life was derived from a mix of 3.4K and 6.5K sources, and rendered from a 2K DI. With the limited exposure to Ultra HD sourced from 4K Digital Intermediates we are left...
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Disc 1: Life Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc 2: Life Blu-ray 6 Deleted Scenes Claustrophobic Terror: Creating a Thriller in Space – 7 minute featurette Life: In Zero G – 7 minute featurette Creating Life: The Art...
I am most definitely a fan of the sci-fi horror thriller genre and eagerly awaited Life’s arrival on my doorstep. The trailer looked interesting, but didn’t contain anything that led me to believe that...
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It comes to Ultra HD Blu-ray in this Combo Pack from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment that features top notch Ultra HD video, engaging lossless surround sound, including an engaging Dolby Atmos immersive...