What a missed opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (16 March 2018)

So this is my first review, although I'm visiting IMDb since 2004. How good a movie is made depends if I fast forward it not. This movie was on fast forward starting from the 10 minute marker.
What bothers me the most is the childish approach towards science in this movie. I mean do they really have to send a team all the way in? Research is done gradually. You send a team 50 meters in, collect the data and come back. The next team goes then 100 meters and so on. Why would you send a team for miles in what seems to be dangerous alien territory? Secondly, how can they all sleep at once in the first part of the movie? Are they under some form of anesthetic? I guess the author meant it as a study of hypothetical human behavior, but if has nothing to do with such things. I would've liked a Martian approach from this movie, but I guess the director wanted for the viewer to make scenarios in his own mind instead of being satisfied that a complex problem was solved.
The pace also lags. The transitions from the Shimmer to flashes in the main character's memory are too often and break the flow of the movie.
The CGI is top notch, just like in Ex-Machina, but the story lags behind big time. I'm left with the same feeling I had after seeing Life, the 2017 movie: disappointed.