greate potential greatly wasted

Rating: 6/10 (30 December 2019)

I did not read the book so I am undisturbed some possible preconceptions of how it should be interpreted. I find the movie greatly made: actors and the effects really great. The interaction between figures also nicely played. The scenes and some sequences of them taken separately also very well made. Yet I had increasing problems with the whole and with the holes and inconsistencies.
This does not destroy the movie. It makes me think of it after I watched it for longer than I did think about most I saw this year of the lord 2019 and it is December now.
Also almost all female crew - I do not mind. It was not too strongly accented as girls power but still it was a bit of a turn off. Or is it a sign of times to come with patriarchate making place for matriarchate? As said - not too much focus on this in the movie but you cannot avoid to see.
And the ending just fits into a standard hollywood nonsense, so predictable. Multiple other S-F and horror movies did that. That is just below the level I expected.
Still I gave it 6/10 even if the most important part i.e. story was this much garbled. It had a great potential to become a classic. Now it possibly becomes a base for a sequel. What a pity. If you fake things do it with pride and decency or at least with humour. There is no humour here. This is an edge case for me.
Still watched it till the end so not all bad.