Logic holes sink this boat

Rating: 3/10 (28 March 2019)

The film centers on exploration into an alien expanse called the Shimmer that has taken over a national park. It's a mix of horror elements, survival, and sci-fi mired in a strange choice to tell the story as flashback from the main character. So, at the beginning of the story we know the main character survives, and now the film is supposed to get by on a why-did-this-happen question. That doesn't work well. The horror elements, however, are reasonably unsettling through the middle of the film. Things go downhill toward the end in a far too drawn out allegory of sorts that finishes up in a ridiculous way out.
Logic is a major factor in pushing this film's score way down. The setting is a national park that has been walled up for three years. Nobody notices. The search party (of seemingly semi-stable personalities) decides to go the extreme long way on foot to reach their target for no reason. The Shimmer has strange effects on radios and tech, but somehow video cameras work just fine. Memories and sense of time are affected by the Shimmer, but nobody bothers to write notes or keep a journal. Little bits like this make our fearless heroes seem like airheads lost in the jungle. Overall, this film could have been better.