Pretty but empty-headed.

Rating: 5/10 (21 March 2018)

It tries to do something different, and kudos for that, but it fails due to a silly plot, the shoehorning in of (more or less) an all female cast and some dreadful CGI (with all the money in the movie industry, you'd think they'd have found a way out of Uncanny Valley by now). I found myself longing for the days of a man in a rubber suit when the unconvincing monsters appeared - it's very distracting. Portman is good without being exceptional, Leigh puts in a strangely mannered performance and the two sidekicks are one-dimensional and predictably dispensable. Almost paid to see it on the big screen (which would have been a visual treat, if nothing else) but thankfully saw the amazing I, Tonya instead. I then found this on Netflix and watched it for free (sort of). Things have a way of working themselves out.