Perhaps the Dumbest Scene of Any Movie this Year

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2018)

I'll start by saying I'm not really a fan of GDT. All this talk of how creative he is, how magical, there's no one like him. Once again, in my humble opinion the emperor has no clothes. Plenty of fabulous fish out of water movies out there - ET, Starman, Brother from Another Planet etc. - this is not one of them.
A tonal mess - is this a romantic comedy, a horror film, a musical, a soap opera or fantasy? It's all those things which makes it particularly bad and confusing. Add to that stereo-typical cold era bad guys (Michael Shannon and the General), unnecessary characters (Richard Jenkins) and characters that seem to have been added on just to make the twisted plot points try to make sense (they don't).
And thank you for the dumbest scene I've witnessed this year. (SPOILER) The heroine unsurprisingly decides to rescue the creature, and only when she arrives at the containment tank does it occur to her that he's chained. Puhhleaze. He's been chained for the entire movie and it never occurred to her that to rescue him she needed to have a way to break the chain? But alas, here comes the contrived character with a magical key! Yippee, the nice Russian researcher saves the day!
And be ready for unnecessary violence. "Hey people, captivity is no joke despite my pretty greens and teals."
Save your money. And Academy please grow a pair and don't give GDT a Best Director Oscar.