The narrative's shift into its comparatively uneventful midsection,
which mostly follows the protagonists as they walk through the Shimmer and make interesting /
horrifying discoveries, suffers from a somewhat hit - and - miss feel compounded by an overlong running time (ie portions of the second
act could've used some trimming), with the movie benefiting substantially from a continuing emphasis on sequences of a thoroughly engrossing nature (eg the crew is attacked by a vicious hybrid creature).
... Hurricane Katrina was a
horrifying act of nature, but one
which simultaneously, as a global media event, involuntarily and unexpectedly developed an enlightenment function
which broke all resistance.