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Films for planes review of "Life"

Life ☀️☀️

In the mood for some sci-fi I punched this up on a transatlantic flight. At first I thought I’d made a reasonable choice. Nice start, interesting idea even if you sort of knew what the plot would be, good special effects to get the story moving.

Lots of it was too dark to see properly so I couldn't entirely tell what was going on.

Rating System

In case you’d forgotten, I use a five sun rating system. It works like this:

  1. Movie gets one sun for interesting story with good acting

  2. Movie gets one sun for not having an English villain

  3. Movie gets one sun for not being too dark or having lots of special effects, so you can enjoy it properly on an airplane screen

  4. Movie gets one sun if I watched all the way to the end without falling asleep or turning over because I was bored

  5. Movie gets one sun if it doesn’t have Kate Winslet in it

So any movie I watch on a place gets at least one sun, and if they pull out all the stops they can get five.

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