Overrated movie with a bizarre plot.

Rating: 6/10 (4 March 2018)

I will try to describe the bizarre plot of this overrated movie as scathing as possible so be prepared. A lonely woman that lives above a cinema and that cannot talk works as a cleaner in some secret government facility that oddly enough seems to be located in some city center. Her dull daily routine, that involves playing with herself (yes that kind of playing) in a bathtub each morning and boiling eggs is disturbed when a strange creature is wheeled into the facility in a big tank. While security at the facility is tight with myriads of cameras she manages to build a relationship with the amphibian. The beast does not exactly live up to modern CGI standards but is nevertheless passable. Some sadist at the site responsible for security likes to prod the aquatic humanoid with a cattle stick and this violence is duly met by Mr. Underwater with biting off a few of the man's digits and that ms. Mute finds when cleaning up the blood spill. Violence in this creature does not necessarily need to be provoked as we will soon learn when it bites off the head of an innocent cat. Apparently unaware that moviegoers are the same people that endlessly watch cat video's on YouTube this incident flied by the censors in the cutting room, maybe it shouldn't have. With the help of her neighbor, also quite lonely, she manages to free the scaled creature and hide it in her rooms that are located above the old fashioned cinema. Now the beast is in the bathtub and while it presumably has godlike powers of healing it struggles to breathe in that environment. Overlooking the fact that each cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton, the woman decides to submerge the bathroom so she can have a sexual encounter with the beast. We never see his thing, but Hollywood as usual can jump through hoops to explain that all away, shooting people dead with guns on the other hand as we can see later on is no problem, but a graphic depiction of the inception of life cannot be handled by the puritans, however admittedly at this time we would be breeding a chimera. The security guy in the mean time, under pressure from the military is scrambling to unravel the plot all the while struggling with the gangrene eating away at his reattached fingers. The only interesting dialog of the whole movie occurs when the army general explains to the guy how one failure can render a man useless despite any long standing record of accomplishments. For a silly moment I thought that all might end well if the creature could heal the man's fingers and in return he would let it escape in peace and all would be jolly, but no it had to end in violence with the man being killed by the creature that slashes his throat effortlessly. The mute woman, after also being hit disappears under water with the creature and that is the end of it and I would not worry what would happen to them just like the screenwriters that must also have been happy to conclude this plot open ended.