Pretentious

Rating: 4/10 (4 May 2019)

This movie is pretentious. Meaning that it pretents to be what it is not. Namely artistic and philosophic. It is neither!
The movie does present a bunch of interesting idea's but does not work any of these out. An alien shimmering enveloping a piece of land? Interesting! People going in losing sense of time? Interesting! Organisms within the shimmering getting their DNA altered? Interesting! DNA of organisms within the shimmering getting blended? Interesting! An alien force cloning someone's body? Interesting! But: randomly presenting the previous idea's without working any of them out or correlating them to each other? Not interesting at all! This is not a script or a movie! It's a gathering of idea's presented with pretty CGI!
Yes, the CGI was done well. And you won't find me complaining about the acting. But that's about all there is to this movie. The CGI and the acting and the idea's deserve the stars, but that does not make this movie fun watching. One star is also deducted because of the sudden, incidental and totally out of place horror images.