Intriguing, artsy, thought-provoking, visionary, and awesome

Rating: 9/10 (13 March 2018)

Was intrigued by this ever since watching the trailer. I was not dissappointed. This movie asks questions like: How do we deal with the unknown, what does it mean to be human, when do we stop to be human, what is human, what is our self? Is all change good, is all change evil? Very smart movie. If you don't like it it means: A- you don't like scifi, B- you don't like to think at all, or C- you think and over analyze too much. I like smart and thought provoking movies where you don't necessarily get every answer on a silver platter, something that requires you to think. I also don't like movies where it's evident that the makers just wanted to be artsy and weird, and had no idea of what they actually wanted to say or question. Watching this movie, I was hooked, intrigued and a bit scared all the way, it was hard to see how it would end.
SPOILERS!
Has elements of H.P Lovecraft's Color out of Space, The Thing, and Arrival, in a good combo. Also, visually borrows a bit from the game The Last of Us and the movie Under the Skin. Some very weird and artsy scenes that you probably won't appreciate unless you tried psychedelics. But, it is very cohesive if you give it a chance. If you like to pick things apart for a sport you'll probably find several flaws but nothing really bothered me. Also, half way through the movie I realized that ALL protagonists were females, and I hadn't even thought about it. In our days of PC, maybe the writers of Star Wars and other movies could learn from this one. Not many people have a problem with an "all" female cast, if the movie is good and doesn't have an overt political agenda. Just like Ex-Machina, this one was very good. 9/10, and the 9 is just because of some smaller (contrived feeling) conflicts between characters.