too abstract to be a whole

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2018)

This movie could have gone the easy route. it could have been a body snatcher type flick with great visuals and an intriguing creature concept, not very original but still fascinating. throw in a twist at the end and you have an ok movie that people forget about after sometime.
Instead it opted to go a more stimulating route and for attempting to do that I give this movie credit.
having said that, it just failed to do so. too much time is spent on world building instead of character and for that this movie suffers because for what it was trying to do, it didn't lay the proper base. I couldn't connect with the characters. I didn't understand their drives. they were just thrown in a situation and you just see it unfold through out. the destructive notion that this movie was trying to play with didn't matter because the viewer simply couldn't care.
and I don't understand why film makers think that ambiguity is a necessary part of any arty project. the final act is so all over the place that the ending just becomes annoying. learn your inception from your matrix people