They missed a chance

Rating: 5/10 (23 February 2019)

I'd rather begin with a credit to the idea. The movie deals with scientific concerns, the fate of humanity, the dark universe and -more generally- the inner fear of the unknown. It begins with reference to the private life of Lena and her supposedly lovely relationship with her husband, a military officer, who soon leaves her for a mysterious mission.
Then, things get complicated. After he is gone for a year and he is considered dead, he makes a strange appearance to his house as she was painting the walls. But, his behaviour is very strange; he is lost, he speaks indistinctly, he has few memories and he sheds blood from his mouth. As they go to the emergencies, special forces capture both in the highway and get them to an observation unit, just opposite of a sealed zone, the Shimmer, where "anomalies" happen.
Trying to find some answers, Lena, an academic biologist, joins a tailor-made team of female scientists to get into that shrimp and reach the Lighthouse. Indeed, in the beginning of the film we see a comet hitting the lighthouse, but how can the team know that the epicentre of the situation is there, if no squad has returned from that "world" anon data transmission can happen?
The female mission has a positive message for women's empowerment but beyond that it is not realistic. Five scientists with no military skills (except for Lena who as in the army), no equipment, but armoured, enter a wild forest full of natural mysteries without even a plan. They do everything wrong, like taking a small boat to sail a lake where they killed a huge mutated alligator. They spend the night in an old house but they patrol on a kiosk the most exposed place.
As they walk through, losing the sense of time and orientation, we learn that Lena had an affair with a colleague, and that was the reason why her husband went on a suicide-mission to the unknown. This is an unnecessary distraction from the real plot.
Last, when Lena reaches the Lighthouse she finally kills the "alien". Before that, she found a burnt corps with a camcorder just opposite. She plays the tape and she finds out that her husband has lost his mind because of the mutations and he unleashed a phosphorus bomb burn himself. But, he was duplicated by the alien and that was the creature that reached Lane. Now, when she killed that "thing", everything in the shimmer created by it turned into dust - everything but the clone of her husband. Quite weird.
Conclusions: one more movie with nice atmosphere and graphics but with weak plot. Many unanswered spots (including the finale) leave a bitter taste. Definitely worth to see but It miseducating the chance to be/do a revelation for the challenged humanity has ahead.