And then that whole ab surgery scene happened, which is REALLY intense and suspenseful and is a super huge moment for the character and possibly everybody on board because HOLY SHIT THIS ALIEN THING JUST CAME OUT OF MY FUCKIN' BODY AND ITS HERE ON THE SHIP and....nothing. Nobody reacts to any of it, there's no drama to follow up on the event, it just happens and then it doesn't matter. The whole movie is FILLED with shit like this.
So you have a bunch of ciphers for characters whose motivations change from scene to scene whenever the plot demands it, things that just happen for little rhyme or reason and no one seems to give a damn, with vague oddities happening every so often meant to make you question and interested in the plot, when for me it does just the opposite. There's that one scene where Idris Elba comes in and kinda explains the plot to Shaw for whatever reason and that they got to leave, and she asks, "Don't you want to know the answers?" "...I don't care"
And that's my overall feeling. I don't care about a single one of these characters and I'm not given any reason to, and the plot stops and starts so many times, with so little answers or real character motivations, that I completely lose interest. My overriding feeling after seeing the film was, "Uh...it was very pretty?"
Damn shame this was the best script they could come up with, because the visuals, direction, and actors were all top notch. Utterly wasted on a shit screenplay.
