Dont believe the hype look at the facts in front of you

Rating: 1/10 (27 February 2018)

It is a sad state of affairs that movies like this are gaming the review system. I watched the film at the weekend, and checked the popularity rating on IMDB ;ast night and it was tanking (it had a 46% drop in popularity) and negative reviews were coming in. This echo's the half empty cinema I sat in on its opening weekend and the fact people were leaving and grumbling before the movie was even over.
Progress to Monday, and the corporate machine has turned its wheels and started to spout out rave reviews of 8's to 10's, and its rating is going up again. (Clearly the paid for reviewers returning to work).All saying how wonderful this film is, how great the acting was and what a thrilling ride, or mind bending move it was - all complete tosh.
Having read the book and watched the movie, I can say that the film is a complete flop. Now I was not a fan of the book, as its was slow, plodding and full of underdeveloped characters (one thing the film did copy) and pointless flashbacks, and one of the most cringe worthy nicknames I think anyone could have created (Ghostbird).
That said the book had a very interesting idea, and after seeing Ex Machina and the trailers of Annihilation, I was keen to see how the story was moved to the big screen under Alex Garlands direction. Alas, the film is a mess and no matter how pretty some scenes were, they just couldn't make up for everything that was wrong with the film, which range from flat acting to the complete removal of key pieces of the book that were core to the story (No tower, no creature in the tower scribing on the walls, the hand like organisms). Instead we have some additional characters who add nothing to the film and acting in ways that are so illogical their actions are more perplexing than what they are sent to investigate, Worst of all, the film leaves little to the imagination unlike the book, which left you pondering on what was actually happening and why. But not here, We have the physicist on hand to tell us what's happening, with no scientific equipment and works it all out within a day or two (I know they were their longer, but they had no memory of the first 3 to 4 days). Which just goes to show, woman really do know it all.
This film unfortunately is not clever or intelligent, if it were it wouldn't have had to spoon feed the viewer in such an obvious way. I have read some outlandish reviews on here that make some reference to this being like 2001, Arrival and Stalker. Clearly these people were not watching the same film, or had climbed so far up themselves that the themselves had found shimmer.
There is a phrase my father used to say to me which is "No matter how much you polish a turd, it will still be a turd". and this phase was never more true than describing this film, and sadly this this movie has to rank as one of the worst movies I have seen in the last 12 months.
If you haven't seen it, then don't believe the hype, there's a reason there are a lot of negative reviews!!! If you feel you must watch this wait for it to hit Netflix at least you wont feel robbed of $10 - $15.