A movie can be artistic, incoherent, black-and-white, hard to follow, have a very abstract story with no real resolution, and still be great. I love Eraserhead, for example. But The Lighthouse...

The Lighthouse has a very promising setting, great actors, and in the beginning, great visual and aural atmosphere. Both characters are unlikable, they are borderline caricatures, but the first half of the movie still succeeds in building up enough mystery and tension to make the watcher wonder what it all will really be about.

But then it goes nowhere from there. All the build-up is for nothing. Nothing gets developed into fruition nor resolved. It seems like the creators had a script for the first half only.

The latter half of the movie is repetitive, unwatchable mess. It loses the tension, loses the atmosphere, loses any semblance of coherence. It is horrid. There is no mystery. There is no story. Anything interesting built during the first half goes out of the window. There is nothing worth watching anymore, just endless, pointless rambling and raving. It is like a parody of all the worst qualities of an art house movie.

Anyone praising this sorry turd as a 10/10 cinema masterpiece must be paid, trolling, or on acid. You'd be better off watching two drunkards fight on the street. The same intellectual content, but at least there would be a resolution, and it would not last this long.