A Small Aside

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2019)

I personally liked this movie, and although I generally don't take the time to review movies there were a couple things that I wanted to clear up after reading some of the other reviews. The first thing is that while the movie does depart from the book a bit it does keep some things the same. One of those things happened to be that everyone on the team was going crazy slowly. While I felt like it was pretty clear in the movie this may have been a bit harder to see if you hadn't read the book. The reason why I say this is because some of the so called "stupid" decisions made in the movie can easily be explained by the fact that they are not in their right state of mind. Another thing I wanted to clear up is that the psychologist was most certainly drugging and/or hypnotizing the other women. While it isn't made overly clear there are enough pointers to this such as the fact they don't remember walking over the border and how they have a clear ability to get sedatives. This isn't explicitly stated in the movie however it is in the book and I think there are enough pointers towards the movie being the same. This is also why the psychologist is the leader of the group. A third thing I wanted to point out was that advanced technology did not work in "The Shimmer". Furthermore the military has sent multiple groups into "The Shimmer" with varying size, skills, ect all to no avail. At this point they are grasping for anything to work which is why the group may seem a bit peculiar. This is all exposition in the book that was not explained in the movie, however I don't fault the movie for not saying these things as oftentimes sci-fi movies can get bogged down in the nitty gritty details. Finally I just want to say that all of these critisisms are so nitpicky, the movie is wonderfully shot with a great cast and a weird a** ending that I honestly enjoyed better than the book (I know gasp!). Overall I would definitely recommend one to watch this movie as I genuinely enjoyed it a lot, and I think many people would as well.