It was trying very hard to be something. What, exactly, I don't know.

Rating: 5/10 (4 November 2018)

I really, really wanted to enjoy this more. I kept thinking, "I must be missing something, right?" I don't really think I did. I think other people are reading what they want to into the movie in some sort of attempt to appear deep. Perhaps it is deep and I'm just too shallow to get it.
I did enjoy the imagery and I think there some interesting scenes, but , man, I just don't know if that made it worth it.
The thing that bothered me the most was the public's apparent lack of knowledge about the anomaly ("the shimmer"). Natalie Portman's character acted as though she knew nothing about it, which, in turn, would mean the general public didn't know anything about it. The movie suggests this is some big secret being kept from the public at large, but I don't know how you'd keep some anomaly consuming part of the U.S. coast a secret.