Left me with a lot to desire!

Rating: 5/10 (18 March 2018)

The film's adaptation seems quite good. However, for me it felt flat when the director overly-used lens-flare effects got in the way of the story and the bland acting game.
The story and dialogue come afront as one of the best I have recently seen in sci-fi genre, without the cliches so typical of the genre. Yet there are some gaping wholes in the story, like why would they not enter the zone in an armored vehicle, yet guns are brought without issues, nor detrimation to their state?
See, to me, apart from the questionable director decisions, very uninspiring actor casts, the actual movie was grippingly good to watch! This duality in good and bad makes it a must watch for any fan of the theme portrait here.
However, this is far from a polished work for the broad audience. Featuring an all-women presence in 95% of the film's duration, emphasys on the horror theme, and graphic gore well above my personal taste (R rating seems mainly for focused gore, barely for sexual)...
With all that said, I must confess that the visuals are nothing short of breathtaking. The high dynamic range of the picture, immense work put on the set and above all - the work's art director. There were moments, I thought the visual design was better that what I have seen in the past decade of Holiwood movies of this type.
Finally, I must say that I would definitely read the trilogy, unlike the film director, who refused to read the sequence of novels before completing the movie...
Make yourself a favor, and watch, but only if you are after a gory R-rated horror-like film, without much science behind it.