Atmospheric but trying too hard

Rating: 3/10 (16 January 2019)

With a cast featuring Natalie Portman (as Marine vet gone Professor in biochemistry), Luc Isaac (as her Marine special forces husband gone missing) Jason Jennifer Leigh (as the psychologist introducing us to the Shimmer- a quarantined zone area where people and nature disappear and die (creepy) and with Gina Rodriguez and other supporting cast joining (somewhat but badly planned) forces on a mission into the Shimmer - for what? Save the earth with their knowledge? - you would thin this movie would deliver. Only it doesn't. It tries to be sci-fi with a horror twist, getting us all confused with the mind- bending horror of it all. It works at times and it's creepy at times but for the most part it doesn't work, even the ending. It only adds to the confusing.