Who the hell let this happen?
The Thing, the REAL The Thing, is a horror masterpiece. This is a forgettable 2 hr piece of intellectual property rape you watch on a plane to keep your mind off the fact that the engines could explode at any time.
The first movie had a team of fantastic, un-glamorized actors and memorable characters. This has a group of interchangeable white noise. In the lead, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, cute in a blue wig in Scott Pilgrim (and not quite believable as a Columbia University paleontologist circa 1982 but we’ll let it slide) has all the charisma of a tall glass of warm skim milk.
In this movie’s defense, some of the creature effects are terrific. Not scary (because the movie is predictable in its scares) but very, very cool looking. Until the end when it goes overboard and silly and ought to make audiences laugh.
This movie sucks.
