Good-ish fantasy/drama period piece

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2018)

Not sure what all the buzz for this movie, seems maladroitly pieced together, some really good elements, the mute woman with obvious gills, Michael Shannon's acting, although a little too high dudgeon, still fun, the sets were great as was the high tech fish-man effects, a bit like Metropolis in that respect, as was the steam punk water tank set. But the movie didn't make sense, the fish-man was really more of a god than a strange creature that ultimately could not be killed, although the threat of it's death was a "plot arc" as if plot matters, it was mostly a love story involving alienated lovers, soulmates who finally meet. Somehow the director even undercut this, scenes seemed waterlogged/sodden even beyond all the water based sets. It wasn't really a bad movie, just not that good.