Pointless in the extreme

Rating: 2/10 (14 March 2018)

Every now and again, a movie comes along, which contrives to be so complex, that it's lauded as brilliant, or ground-breaking. It's one of those 'Google' the ending movies. When I watch a movie, I want the ending served up to me, I do not want to be wondering what I just watched - and more importantly, why I just wasted almost 2 hours of my life on it. Leaving that aside for a moment, I'll try to make sense of it. A woman's husband disappears and then reappears, coughing up blood, he is then quarantined. He's apparently been inside a large spreading dome like structure, called 'the shimmer'. To make sense of it, she and a select band of women decide to enter this alien-like world, where they find strange, cross-species creatures, living in a surreal forest. The band are attempting to find a lighthouse, where the shimmer originated. There, it is discovered that the alien can clone and devour human form. That's about the size of it, without giving anything away. Interesting concept you might think? The concept is the only interesting about this movie. It crawls along at a snail's pace - so slow in-fact, that you drift off into lalaland! Eventually, you lose interest in this bore-fest and by the end, you no longer care what is happening. Obviously we will condescendingly have the movie's meaning explained to us and even if it does have any meaningful content, or reason - it's still utterly soulless and turgid. It's pseudo intellectual clap-trap!