The Good, the Bad and the very disappointing.

Rating: 2/10 (3 April 2018)

Great evolved makeup and eyes on Doug Jones, although a glaring and horrible rip off of the "Creature from the Black Lagoon." Taking a good actress and making her do a gratuitous nude scene is so obvious it reeks of a Harvey Weinstein move, same with the totally unnecessary nudity of Michael Shannon in his bedroom scene, both scenes and what they represented could have been accomplished with less actor abuse. The vile comments about short people, flatulence etc was a ridiculous and ignorant addition to the dialogue of the other cleaning lady. What really ruined it for me was the dream sequence of the creature doing a ballroom dance, it shattered the atmosphere of the creature's reality as badly as Ray Liota stepping out of character in "Goodfellas" in the courtroom scene. Some of the music choices were so out of place it was like jamming a round peg into a square hole, absolutely horrendous choices of music in some spots. They should have showed the creature healing his bullet wounds much more clearly and healing her bullet wounds decisively too rather than just jump into the dirty water with bleeding internal damage, show the healing! I wanted to enjoy the movie with all the hype at the Oscar's but the aforementioned flaws ruined it not only for me but for several other fans watching with me.