A sci-fi trying to break minds but doesnt

Rating: 6/10 (13 March 2018)

You know what i dont like about movies like these? The director going "man i dont even know how i want this to end anymore, lets make it so the ending could mean a lot of things at once that may contradict each other so the viewers cant blame me if they didnt like the ending" Wtf do you expect me to think, you give all these hints that she finally escapes still human, then you point out that shes not.
The entire journey those girls made is ultimately pointless. They learn nothing about the shimmer, the mutations survive even though the shimmer is "gone" and we as the viewers are left to guess the director's intentions when he doesnt even know them himself. Its disguised as a mind breaker when all it does is create more questions about the intentions of the aliens that sent it (even if they sent themselves there) the government's amateur approach to learning about it and how disappointing it is to witness their efforts lead them to nowhere.
In fact, the one thing that deserves praise is the good portrayal of the horrible struggle they endure. Also, those effects seem like from an early 2000 film, simple and dont blend in. Even a typical horror film would make me go out of the cinema more satisfied and horror is my least favorite genre. Because horror films dont try to do more than they can.
A nicely set up and interesting journey with no clear way of the plot it wants to unfold. A common issue in all entertainment forms.