Really average. . .
Personally, I think the main problem is that there is no sense of substitution. The most important thing in horror films is the sense of substitution. However, the only thing that can produce a slight sense of substitution in this film is the hydrologist, and other characters are difficult to substitute (the protagonist's family's behavior and personality were very unusual before the meteorite arrived).
A movie without a sense of substitution will give people the feeling of God's perspective and become an audience for watching the play. Then I don't feel the horror and thriller involved in it, but only how the characters in the movie are so stupid.
Of course, this can't be entirely blamed on the director and the original work, after all, the times are different. In the era of the original book, small farming families like the one in the movie were the mainstream (population majority) in America. The director's adaptation should also take into account the original work, and it is not possible to make drastic changes.
Imagine if the same story happened in the background of white-collar workers. For example, if the protagonist was replaced by an ordinary office worker with old people and young people, every day when he returned home, he would find new and abnormal conditions such as parents, children, pets, etc. , until at last the whole family went mad and died. That way, for most modern people, the sense of substitution will be greatly enhanced.
However, the director also made mistakes. He should describe the story from the beginning to the end from the perspective of one person, which will make it easier to have a sense of substitution. Rather than like in the movie, the whole film is divided into small segments from different perspectives, without a real protagonist. Just imagine, if the whole film is mainly explained from the perspective of Father Cage alone, the sense of horror will be greatly increased. The story changed from "the audience watched the family go crazy and die from the perspective of God" to "the audience watched their family members go crazy from a third-person perspective, but couldn't save them. Until the end, they also went crazy", Obviously the latter is more sensible.
For a Cthulhu-themed movie, it can only be said to be a failure. After all, the theme of the theme of Cthulhu is the fear of the unknown, and the lack of a sense of substitution leads the audience to be curious rather than fearful of the unknown. . . (Personal perception is that I was curious throughout the whole process of watching. From the beginning, I was curious about what the movie was going to talk about, and in the middle, I was curious about what the color of the stars is and what it does, and finally I wondered why the hydrologist didn't die.)
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