Smart novel turned into mindless Hollywood potboiler

Rating: 3/10 (12 January 2019)

This screenplay and direction are both by Alex Garland so he can justifiably be blamed for this brainless adaptation of a quite good sci-fi novel. Nobody sets out to make a lousy film so I presume, this disastrous attempt is simply due to an utter lack of talent or intelligence in Garland. Why adapt a book where you have absolutely no interest in the main premise or the main plot line. In fact, this isn't really an adaptation, more of a "loosely based on".