frankietimoz What should I say about this short film....well lets start with the fake reviews!To the IMDb liars who compared this movie to 'The Thing' and 'Life' I hope there is a special place for you in bell, lol, there really is no comparison! It doesn't even deserve being mentioned in the same breath. As for praising Dakota Fanning she was uber lame, maybe she can act but she showcased absolutely none of her acting skills in this movie! The monster, script and dialogue were all shocking. The best part of this film was the end which mercifully comes fairly quickly. I urge you to watch this pathetic excuse for entertainment and make your own minds up. Just don't pay any money to do so or those involved may be able to make more films this would be a travesty/tragedy. As for the low score it may be a tad harsh it's possibly a 3 but a few 1's will re-balance the ridiculously high fake score this debacle currently enjoys! Shame IMDb used to be very reliable but these charlatans posting fake scores are destroying the sites credibility.... Off with their heads.

thisseatofmars If you choose between seeing this and Life (2017)... choose this instead.Let me explain why. George Miller, master storyteller and director of the Mad Max films, has said that audiences have learned how to "speed read" films, citing the number of cuts between the earlier Mad Max movies and the latest, Fury Road: Wikipedia claims that Fury Road contains 2,700 cuts while The Road Warrior had only 1,200. I bring this up because Zygote offers us the very same setup as films like Alien, Aliens, John Carpenter's The Thing, Event Horizon, and even Life, of this year: Zygote is set in a derelict and remote station featuring workers being stalked by a horrible creature. Zygote is superior to Life only because it is much more condensed. I'm judging Zygote by Life because they came out the same year and Life has failed to evolve.No, I'm not giving preference to Zygote over Life just because Zygote is shorter-- Zygote is condensed. As the Mad Max movies have evolved to suit the abilities of "speed reading" audiences, Zygote offers us everything Alien, Life, and The Thing offers without dragging out the entire show. The "trapped in space with a horrible monster" genre has been done to death. Zygote wisely gives us all of the feelings of isolation, fear, claustrophobia, and wonder that the genre offers us in just over 20 minutes. "Life" was overlong rehash of a film we've seen more than a dozen times now. Perhaps Zygote-- or rather, its format-- is the evolution of the genre. A criticism: the opening exposition is weak, just the male lead talking and explaining the setup. And he speaks in such a gravelly-growly "please take me seriously, I'm a hardened veteran, no really" kind of way I wished there was an option for subtitles.In any case, props to the FX department of Zygote-- they did a wonder creating their monster. Now THERE is a scary creature I'd rate in the same category of creepy-cool as Alien's xenomorph. Not Life's "Calvin..." that thing looked like a lizard with a four feelers.

Robert Kautz This short was so lacking in substance and originality that I'm struggling to find words to describe how bad it was. I would call it a high budget low talent student film, but that would be an insult to some very well made student films. Don't waste your time, you won't miss a thing.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Zygote" is a Canadian English-language short film just released the other day, so this 2017 film is really new and fresh. The writer and director is South African Oscar nominee Neill Blomkamp, which explains its instant popularity I guess. I must say I really really loved his breakthrough movie "District 9", but this one we got here does not do that much for me and sadly overall I am not too much in favor of his Oats Studios works recently. The first was maybe still the best. Anyway, this one runs for 22 minutes and 22 seconds and stars Jose Pablo Cantillo and (the probably more known) Dakota Fanning. As always with Blomkamp, you could describe it as creature horror, but here the one component that makes his films usually so strong is missing: I am of course talking about the national component. For example District 9 would not have worked outside of South Africa because of the high quantity of references about race, racism and more. Maybe that's the reason why I did not end up liking these slightly over 20 minutes. Or maybe it is that I am in general not a great SciFi fan. I see this is receiving pretty good ratings, so maybe if you like the genres SciFi and horror, then you can check this one out. Not even the claustrophobic component that I usually appreciate in films did a whole lot for me. Same goes for the ending, which felt abrupt and not really good in a way where you could discuss it after the movie. The acting is okay, it's not an actors' film at all I guess, more about the effects and maybe the story, so you can't blame Cantillo or Fanning for the mediocre outcome, even if this film does not change my opinion that the younger Fanning is the more talented. All in all, I am disappointed. I hope Blomkamp can return to his best with his full feature works in the future again. His more recent stuff (also outside of Oats Studios) left me underwhelmed.