Millie Bobby Brown is an amazing young actress with a bright future ahead of her. That said, this story is a mess and basically serves as a launch platform for Millie's career and little else.

Towards the end it devolves into a plot-less hodge podge about something or other, then slams the viewer with a bunch of feminist talking points and then hides behind them, daring the viewer to criticise the cinematographic merits of the movie lest they be called out for being anti-feminist Conservative MAGA types.

Well, I'm not buying it.

Creating strong female leads is fine and dandy if you have a story that supports it organically - and that isn't new at all. Just look at Alien and others before and after it. Look at The Expanse TV show and even Millies' own Stranger Things. They all feature strong female leads, but the plots accommodate them naturally. Lately many movies seem to feel like the strong female lead has been shoehorned into the plot and that feels forced accordingly. In this case however, while the plot was written with a female lead in mind - the story itself was forced and all over the place and then it took a cheap political shot to try and hide that fact at the end.

There were a few laughs though, to give it some credit - but little else.

Basically it is aimed at young teenage girls.