Awful and pretentious

Rating: 1/10 (26 February 2018)

Reading the positive reviews of this film has left me speechless. This is not a good movie. It's dull and pointless. I can only assume people raving about this are pretentious snots, who think it makes them look like an intellectual by praising this film. Little of the film hold up to scrutiny. Five women spend a week walking through jungles and swamp to get to a lighthouse. Why? Why didn't they drive or take a boat? I never heard a reason given for this. It's a lighthouse! It would be very accessible via road. Why are they trudging through jungles and swamps? The women have volunteered for what they believe to be a suicide mission They each have their own reasons, something to do with self-destruction or some other nonsense. But when things get hairy and someone is killed, two of them go ballistic and want to turn around and go back. They knew it was a suicide mission, why are they suddenly acting like this was unexpected? Apparently, the Shimmer mixes and changes the DNA of all organic material. Why this makes alligators and bears more hostile toward people is never explained. Little is explained about anything. In the end, the shimmer is undone with a simple grenade. Why it took three years for someone to do that in inexplicable. The climax with the alien marionette and bad '80s music is laughable. The film seemed to be saying that the shimmer, like cancer, isn't benevolent nor malevolent; it just is. It has no point or objective. Ironically, that sums up the movie as well.