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Life - 2017 Directed by : Daniel Espinosa  The idea of this film might or might not be original but it offered a good thrill nonetheless. No film have absolutely original idea of its own. Every film has some influences on it of other movies. It might seem that this movie is just a poorly implemented replica of Alien. But Alien itself had drawn some its influences from others. So it is not completely unethical for a film to get its influences from other movies, given that it have its own world and own bunch of original ideas. And Life has some of its own unique achievements. Although it is definitely not one of the greatest sci-fi horror flick but it provides a decently engaging thrill throughout. It would be inappropriate to compare it to something like Alien, 2001, Gravity or some of the bests out there. We would only be disappointing ourselves because of it. When you watch it as an independent movie itself, it provides a fairly decent watch. And it claims no better....

Duel - 1971 Directed by - Steven Spielberg  Duel has a fairly simple plot. A bussiness man is on his way through a deserted area for a meeting. And he unintentionally overtakes a big old tank truck. Now the the movie would have never been made, if the driver of the truck would simply have counted down from 10 to 1 to calm his nerves. But the driver of the truck turned out to be psychopath who will only stop when killing that man that dared to overtook him. And what we see after that is the Duel between these two, one is obsessively trying to kill other over slightest offense and other just want to save his life from a raging psychopath. This was Spielberg's first feature film. He directed it when he was only 24! And what an intense ride. With fairly simple plot and resources what Spielberg achieved was truly phenomenal. Just passionate film-making. With not more than couple dozen dialogues, a lonely desolate road and just two vehicles, what we get is a totally cool and ...