The stink of water

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2018)

Very disappointed in this movie. I had seen Pan's Labyrinth previously and liked it; thought this would be a more mature work but instead was subjected to a criminally boring, overrated piece of sentimental mush, gratuitous nudity + sex, and nauseating political correctness. Please take my advice and stay away from this storytelling disaster and insult to people's intelligence.
Spoilers ahead.
A few of the 100 questions that sprang into mind as I watched this awful movie I have for the director:
(1) ?the purpose of showing the lady masturbating/ nude every day. Completely gratuitous.
(2) ?painting the villain so black it was cartoonish. He is a white Christian man so he is racist, sexist, misogynist, anti-science and anti-color green. Also for some weird reason he does not was his hands after he pees. Because he is truly blackhearted.
(3) ?5-star general in charge of national security etc, has zero judgment, bullies a scientist for no good reason, and is a complete buffoon, saying laughable things like "you will be in a different universe blah blah"
(4) ?young man who is accosted by man old enough to be his grandfather is wrong to rebuff him because this means he is homophobic. Also suddenly turns out to be racist so obviously he is a villain too. (even though he is Canadian!)
(5) ?mute lady and black lady are heroines, so everything they do is ok even though it makes no logical sense. Mute lady is shy and diffident (no previous boyfriend even) but suddenly is adventurous enough to initiate and consummate an interspecies romance with a scaly fish like creature which was just a minute ago trying to eat her friend's cat. Her friends (black lady and gay man= so they must be ok) don;t think it is utterly crazy for her to break the law, steal things from a govt facility, have physical relationship with a weird fish creature even though this is 1960 or something and the height of cold war and the creature ate the man's cat!!!.
(6) ?extraordinary creature which is from the Amazon (fresh water river) but needs 3% salinity, is intelligent enough to learn sign language etc. but doesn't know not to eat cat, kills cat but leaves it uneaten and runs off when startled by a human he already knows, is somehow invisible because he manages to get into movie theater and watch a movie (!!) without being spotted even after leaving blood webprints on the glass window of the movie ticket keeper (!), can heal himself from the bullet wounds but not the heroine's wounds, likes touching peoples heads for no explicable reason except that the bald man starts sprouting hair.
(7) ?top secret government facility has no competent people except a Russian scientist, cleaners can go wherever they like and play music and dace with top secret fish creature, loading dock camera is more important than having camera at the door or inside of most secret room with top secret fish, cannot figure out who stole the fish (all they have to do is find out who is buying 10 tins of salt from the grocer everyday) and stealing protein powder or something from the lab
I could go on and on but I hope you get the drift.
Utter drivel from a filmmaker who has done some really excellent work in the past.
So disappointing.
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