When you steal a great idea and somehow manage to make it ridiculous

Rating: 1/10 (1 June 2018)

"Roadside picking" was one of the greatest books to come out of Soviet Russia. It is not a surprise that Vandermeer decided to steal the central idea some decades later. It is surprising though that Netflix decided to make a movie out of such a crippled plagiarism.
Vandermeer's first book and the sequel were shallow and meaningless. Nothing happens on thousand pages. No plot, no learning - nothing. Just nonsense sentence after sentence after sentence. No final at all.
The movie makes no difference. Two hours of nothing. An alien entity which controls everything but suddenly gives up beaten by a phosphorus grenade in order to "infiltrate" one or two human-like clones in the society?!? Really?!? That's the whole movie?!? Sorry, I'm not buying that.
Read Strugatsky and compare.