Quite unbelievable tangle of coincidences

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 2018)

Ok, we are talking about the year 1962 and let's pretend every person of that era is a naive and airhead.
So you have a big secret government laboratory in Baltimore where our mute protagonist, Elisa (who's never dated anyone somehow because the 1960s men were douchebags and just wanted sexy blonds with no scars on their body who can moan "Fuck me!!" anytime) works as a janitor along with her co worker, Zelda who apparently is the only friend she has apart from her gay neighbor Giles.
So, in this secret organization where Elisa works treats all the workers as a part of the family and never hides anything which makes me ask the point of calling themselves as "secret" or "classified". Yep, any worker can freely open any door, because it seems there's no locked doors and enter to enjoy feeding some fish bread crumbs, even if that fish is a humanoid and actually gets only boiled eggs to eat from Elisa. The workers can even change the coverage of CCTV cameras by some manual manipulation to smoke or rescue an aquatic creature. And in this secret organization, the security never finds out who kidnapped their specimen but a one man army Colonel does, and that too after realizing the traitor's identity too late by a little mind pushing.
See, there's a lot of coincidences, Like you never know that a woman is in love with the lab specimen and is planning to rescue it while you are too trying to rescue it and the guard who is about to shoot our Elisa's bestie gets blacked out by you at the right time. A lot of that it plainly becomes unbelievable and heavily clichéd. You find yourself shutting your eyes or wanting to leave the hall to attend some better activity like napping.
Yes, things do look original but you also catch yourself telling yourself, "Ha, this looks like the uncartooned version of some Disney fairytale set in modern timeline and city and not in a far away kingdom without princes or mermaids.
The only time I got surprised was when Strickland doesn't have Elisa "squawk" out of her muteness anywhere throughout the screenplay after the warning which is the only good thing done in the movie for the sake of not letting viewers predict that scene. Else, I would have expected our merman to save the heroine from the clutches of the villain.
Well, the end was as disappointing as the whole screen play and completely contradicted the narration in the beginning few seconds. I was expecting the lovers to get separated to have some good forced tears rather you have our merman pronounced as "God" by Strickland and concluding a good blow from the merman for being called a "God" (jk)
And the merman takes away his beloved while consequently resurrecting her in the waters to make her become an amphibian like him (I guess) and live happily ever after, as expected by our poor guy Giles who was born too early or too late in an era were gays and blacks are discriminated against in family restaurants.
The characters were certainly poorly developed and unrealistic and too foolish. There was no powerful character throughout the movie with even the good scientist being killed.
The movie is heavily predictable with minor surprises that don't impress you. Go for it if you never mind watching illogical Disney movies and don't respect yi=our money. Also, watch this if you'd like to know how a water creature and a human woman make love.
For real watchers who want to be impressed, give it a go for the real and short depictions of racism, LGBT issues, patriotism, humanity, great humor provided by Zelda (Spencer), how a maniac Colonel realizes that the creature he'd been torturing throughout is actually quite Godlike in the end.