Different

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2018)

Love that this has four or five women at the top of the cast list. It delivers different fare to what one might expect - where gung-ho fails, maybe a non-standard, more scientific approach will pay dividends when investigating the alien presence. Some questions of "motivation" of the presence are left unanswered, which raises this above the traditional invader paradigm. Fusing elements of Stalker, Under the Skin and The Descent, this demands a little more of its audience and I am impressed by the reviewer who says (roughly) "it stays with you in a way that is not exactly clear." That is cinema magic working there. I found the whole thing refreshing and full of ideas. Not perfect by any means, but what is? A million miles superior to much of the genre.