They were zombies all along

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2019)

I'm not sure when this style of acting became popular, but someone needs to tell directors that having actors stand perfectly still while speaking in a monotone makes the film LESS exciting. I needed subtitles for the emotionless asian guy, who i suppose is thrown in for chinese audiences. Overall the characters come off like mindless zombies, not real human beings faced with the prospect of the end of humanity. The alien's motivation was unclear...it goes out of its way to distort everything within the shimmer but then has no problem looking exactly like human beings at the Adam & Eve ending. What does the alien want? Natalie Portman doesn't know. If you don't know, why should I care? An ambiguous enemy isn't terribly frightening. Also, the affair served no purpose and didn't advance the story at all.