Kind of a mishmash

Rating: 4/10 (17 March 2018)

The idea as a whole has more promise than what was delivered. Early 60s space race intrigue, a mysterious creature being studied in a secret govt installation, the racism and sexism of that time, etc. But the movie itself left me unimpressed and bored. Why the fascination of how she cheats in line to punch in each day? TVs in the early 60s did NOT have a remote control, so that was strange. Her bathroom would absolutely NOT flood (not even 6 inches deep) for that scene. Her friend trying to sell advertising art to his old company, what was the point in that? A refrigerator full of half eaten crappy key lime pie and nothing else, what the hell? No subtitles for the extensive Russian dialog was distracting as well. Why did his cage have both an open pool and also a underwater "phone booth" area? Is that lab top secret or can anyone on the cleaning staff just go in and out as they please? What was the point of beating up the creature, what could that possibly accomplish, other than to show how evil his character was? Why do they have to wait for the canal to fill when they live ON THE OCEAN? But wait, didn't they find him in a river, that would be fresh water. This film, while visually well designed and beautifully shot, just seemed like a bunch of kind of random ideas thrown together. The creature costume was very cool, I liked that.