A FANTASY DEBACLE

Rating: 4/10 (26 February 2018)

Seriously if this takes home oscar for best picture the academy has failed. I had to write this review just to express the emptiness i feel for this movie. I like Guillermo and think his vision is great and his story seems interesting but that's where it all ends. BEASTIALITY is basically where i lost this movie and if anyone can justify a woman having sex with a fish like man (that oddly resembles abe from his Hellboy movies) then your just as perverse. This is no love story to me, it's gross. It starts off all well as these two women, the mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins) and her best friend Zelda the charismatic (Octavia Spencer) work in a HIGH SECURITY (remember that) secret lab set in the 60S cold war era, cue the villainous agent (Michael Shannon) whose brought a secret creature into the facility to torture it and be cruel for reasons we don't know. Basically this mute Elisa who gets herself off vigorously every morning in the bathtub starts sneaking around this facility with the help of her reluctant friend Zelda and starts bringing the Creature eggs and wouldn't you know it......they fall in love. Now she comes up with an escape plan involving her neighbour (Richard Jenkins) and Zelda to sneak this creature out. Now if you thought sneaking around a high security facility was hard, your wrong, these two nobodies and their friend manage to escape with the help of a russian whose motives remain a mystery to me like this movie. THAT'S RIGHT TWO NOBODIES ESCAPED A HIGH SECURITY LAB. They escape then the creature eats a cats head then escapes apartment ending up in a cinema which baffles me as no one notices a 6ft tall lizard fish walking around 60s america. Elisa takes creature home and fills her apartment bathroom with water and boom, they get it on. YUKKK ! Creature gets let free in a scene that's prob best of the movie and WHAT ?? He's a FISH GOD or something......bottom line this could've been good but gets let down by lackluster story and no real meaning of anything even in a fantasy world you would scratch your head and say what is this garbage. Go watch for yourself but i didn't agree with it or like it.