An Opinion After A 2nd Viewing .

Rating: 7/10 (7 December 2018)

It was a bizarre experience to start from the 1st time but now...
I wouldn't say it was worth it. Most of the films I tend to go back to either get better or worse for me. I had the same viewing experience after watching this as the 1st time.
So if you're looking for a plot description you're not gonna get it from me, but I can tell you two or three things on why my view of the film hasn't change all that much.
First it's a solid film but not fully commited to the ideas it's presenting. And a big letdown and what keeps me from loving it. Alex Garland of course is not stranger to sci-fi (watch the excellent Ex-Machina) has found creative ways to visualize the pages which this movie is adapted from but fails to keep a coherent structure.
My conclusion is that it's a solid flick with good performances, goood ideas, here and there, not fully expanded to their potential. It's not commited to giving us either a crazy and abstarct film (2001) nor a intelligent and enviromental thriller with less confusing turns. It tries to explain some things, all within two or three lines of dialogue and puts you into visual trance and aberration only towards the finale. Meaning that it;s not all or nothing but some of this and some of that all blended together.
I must say tho, the score in the final sequence is so thrilling and other wordly that almost makes my 2nd viewing worth it after all, just saying....