Beautiful movie with an implausible setup

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2018)

All in all, this is a beautiful, well-executed movie that makes you think. But the whole setup has some huge logical flaws that makes the first half or so very painful to watch.
In particular, I find it very implausible how the scientists react to the shimmer. There is a strange phenomenon that is spreading over a radius of many kilometers and no person or drone ever sent in there returned. So what do you do? Do you send in another team with the mission to reach the center of the phenomenon or do you poke it with a stick first, and if that goes well you send in a dog on a long leash? Furthermore, if light can go through, why don't they just use laser to communicate with the outside? And why walking when there are streets? (There must be streets if there is a village and a former base, and I don't see why a car wouldn't work if guns and cameras work in there.) Or even better: takle a boat! If your goal is to reach a light-house, taking a boat is a much better option than walking through a swamp. It makes no sense at all. Furthermore, it is completely ridiculous that they waited for a whole year before sending the next team in! Imagine you are the commander and you sent in a team for a mission to investigate a life-threatening phenomenon that should take two weeks to complete at most. Why waiting for a hole year before sending in the next team? It makes no sense at all.
Once you have come to piece with these flaws and disabled all your critical thinking, the movie is quite good.