Excellent Actors. Borrowed Characters. Attempt at Fantasy Interspecies Romance. Good atmosphere. Unoriginal plot. Tries too hard to be PC and violates its own standards. Runs just over two hours. I give it a 4 out of 10. Your mileage may vary.

There are many characters and plot devices that are derived from other shows and movies. For instance, the Michael Shannon character Strickland is a reprise from his FBI agent character in Boardwalk Empire. Only here he is even more unlikable for reasons that are not really logical even within the context of the plot. The theme of love between different beings with a magical tie-in is reminiscent of 'Avatar', along with the demonization of western 'white' mankind. The 'creature' costume is very well done and very reminiscent of the similar creature in Hellboy. Hellboy was a much better integrated movie without the PC baggage. The 'love' affair is of course nothing of the kind. It is, by the standards of the movie itself, an additional exploitation of an innocent creature by a human being.