Tragic forecast to life as we know it.

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2018)

I watched this at home on DVD. My wife looked at the trailer and decided she did not want to see it.
Brought to us by the same man who brought us the excellent "Ex Machina" I looked forward to seeing it, and I like many of the actors. It features something brought to Earth by alien life, and it is manifest as a "shimmer" effect in and surrounding a lighthouse. In time it grows in the area it covers.
The theme of the story plays on the fact that on Earth animal and plant life have their own DNA and own ways of cell division that results in, for example, an apple tree making apples and a human making humans. But what of that got jumbled such that different species were instead able to pool and share their characteristics? That is what this new force enables.
Natalie Portman is Lena, her husband has been gone for a time, she doesn't know where, until he magically turns up. But he doesn't seem like the same person she knew. To try to solve the mystery of missing persons and to learn what exactly this "shimmer" is all about she joins a group of four other ladies, mostly different types of scientists, to explore the "shimmer" and see what they can find.
Well they find all sorts of things and few of them are good. And in the end it seems that maybe in time this will trigger the annihilation of the species as we know them on Earth and eventually result in something completely different. Not necessarily bad or good, but different.
Interesting concepts, I am glad I saw it, makes one think but in the end it is all science fiction. I still will sleep well tonight.