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This prequel is just an excuse to rehash The Thing for the modern market. It's a tipical action monster movie, with a mediocre script, bad dialogues, and awful charachters. The CGI doesn't help. Prop design, photography and colors are terrible, because they're crystal clear: the exact opposite of these features from the first movie. They should've at least tried to recreate a similar atmosphere for a story that happens literally just hours before The Thing.

It's one of those movies you've already watched even if you didn't. Ridden with clichés, predictable, and shallow. Ultimately boring. I couldn't relate to Finch, nor the robot or the dog. This is the era of industrially produced movies, and Apple is no different from Netflix or Amazon.

Boring, clunky, never takes off. Mild twist after mild twist, it drags till the end. It's a crime story you've watched one hundred times before. If not for the cast and the scenography, it would have been a bad movie.