Shockingly bad

Rating: 2/10 (6 March 2018)

I was moved to write a review for this film because I was shocked that such a poor and poorly made film could possibly win and Oscar.
The plot is terrible and seems to have been written by a 10 year old. There is absolutely no depth to the characters who are very one dimensional. What is the creature? All we know is that it was captured in South America and revered as a God. The villain is very stereotyped and predictable. There is lots of gratuitous gore and naked scenes which contribute absolutely nothing to the storyline and just make the watcher very uncomfortable. And what a ridiculous storyline!! A woman falling in love at first sight with a queer monster of another species. Loving another species is one thing but just suddenly ripping of her clothes and making love to it is just bizarre and distasteful.
And yet the story could have been great if they tried to keep that fairy like quality. This just hit the rocks as soon as the gore, the sex scenes and the perverted behavior of the villain.
How, but how could this film win an Oscar?