Not much else is new, yet another left wing propaganda film that focuses on its political message rather than actual artistic value which is what film should be about. It is an unfortunate turn of events after Guillermo del Toro seemed to be such a promising director after his masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth (2006).

If nothing else, it is a very stylish and beautiful film. One of my complaints about a lot of modern movies is also the fact that most of them are ugly as can be, but this is not one of them. It is colorful, stylish and has beautiful cinematography. Yet i wish del Toro would try something else than the hip height camera stance and the constant moving around of the camera without having any kind of major reveal, it just makes it seem pointless. The score by Alexandre Desplat was also very good.

Unfortunately all the good points end here. For a story about morals or a psychological intelligent kind of film we are obviously in the wrong place here. For one, lets analyze the main characters: A mute woman, a gay man, a black woman, and the evil white guy. Such an obvious lazy political message that has ruined filmmaking as it is today . We get that the white straight man is the enemy now, Hollywood, you might as well leave these kind of dumb messages out of your films, turning it into a bunch of socially pretentious garbage.

It is a movie partly ruined by its irrelevant social message, yet the script and the dialogue also leave something to be desired. Conversations between the white bad guy and Hoyt borderline on the comical, that's how terrible they are. Lines like 'i do not fail' and 'i deliver', 'You are a God' also come off as extreme cringeworthy. The script goes too fast for the romance to feel anything like it isn't forced, which is exactly what it feels like now. The mute woman sees the captured animal and is somehow immediately in love because like her he cannot talk? Very convincing stuff. Unfortunately the entire romance is just another irrelevant political message ( mute woman and captured animal ) about the weak overcoming the strong. Regardless of whether or not you share these ideals, this is not what a movie should be about. But as a pure artistic milestone, del Toro fails on every aspect except cinematography.

In the end what we have here is nothing new. Yet another modern film with the depth of a peanut and irrelevant political messages. A shame such a promising director has been downgraded to this.