Firstly I want to admire this film for it's scene building, its score (which I found unsettling), its dire, bleak landscape and it's fantastic opening scenes. I want to admire the pacing of the first half of the film, that builds tension and the atmosphere which isn't reliant on jump scares or CGI overload but genuinely good directing and cinematography.
Where it falls completley flat is the poor ending. The protagonist learns nothing from her backstory (it is implied she came from an orphanage and had to overcome clubbed feet in order to run, the analogy for her triumphs and risk taking as a woman). However, when she decided to take the alien and its host in a half baked plan, I didn't feel that this rung true to the some what well done history or the character.
Tanya in the second half exudes stupidity and naivety; the writers dumbed down this powerful female in order to compensate for a love story, I didn't believe in.
Either she had to kill the host through pain and sorrow of a broken heart or he should have been depicted as using mind altering powers to seduce and ultimately bend the will of her formidable mind. Only in the last throws of her knowing, what is right does she kill him....
The end flopped and faulters what was a fantastic movie which had promise but led to a stitched-together feel, with disjointed character motivations. I do not believe Tanya would make the decision she ultimately did.
Where it falls completley flat is the poor ending. The protagonist learns nothing from her backstory (it is implied she came from an orphanage and had to overcome clubbed feet in order to run, the analogy for her triumphs and risk taking as a woman). However, when she decided to take the alien and its host in a half baked plan, I didn't feel that this rung true to the some what well done history or the character.
Tanya in the second half exudes stupidity and naivety; the writers dumbed down this powerful female in order to compensate for a love story, I didn't believe in.
Either she had to kill the host through pain and sorrow of a broken heart or he should have been depicted as using mind altering powers to seduce and ultimately bend the will of her formidable mind. Only in the last throws of her knowing, what is right does she kill him....
The end flopped and faulters what was a fantastic movie which had promise but led to a stitched-together feel, with disjointed character motivations. I do not believe Tanya would make the decision she ultimately did.