A major annihilation of a movie

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2018)

This is disappointing, though not having read the novel on which it is based I'm not sure how much blame can be laid at the door of the film-makers and how much was due to the original source material.
It is true that it is hard to find a really original idea for a movie. A similar idea was done rather more dramatically in 1998 by the BBC in "Invasion: Earth". However, there was much to be enjoyed along the way, including some passable special effects and pretty landscapes. Unfortunately the team seemed to think they were on a holiday hike through the benevolent and well-tamed grounds of Windsor Great Park (which indeed they were), rather than roaming through what they should have treated an enemy-occupied, potentially highly hazardous, territory. I half expected them to come face-to-face with a Range Rover driven by HM The Queen.
Did anyone else notice the nod to the original source material for an ever-expanding area of mutations, consuming all who pass through it - J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World" (1966), which had a character named Ventress. The leader of the expedition in this film is called Ventress.
I fear the film-makers have indeed been constrained by the largely derivative material they were given, but they could have added some rigour to the expedition - perhaps just a little common sense (such as, don't place your sentry in a well-lit hut, so that she stands out like a lighthouse).
Overall, I remain ambivalent about this film. It is a pity, since I'm not in the USA, that I only saw this on the small screen thanks to Netflix - I'm sure it would have been better, visually at least, on the big screen, as intended.