While investigating an evil billionaire (Riz Ahmed) who
has been secretly experimenting with fusing human beings and aliens into a
composite life form, a reporter (Tom Hardy) accidentally undergoes the
transformation, which endows him with superpowers but also leaves him unable,
at times, to control his own actions. He gets help from his sympathetic
ex-live-in-girlfriend (Michelle Williams) and her new beau (Reid Scott), a
physician. But the extraterrestrial of the title has a battle to fight with
others of his kind here on Earth so expelling him from the journalist's body
proves challenging. This Marvel Comics-based bit of nonsense from director
Ruben Fleischer has some amusing dialogue between Hardy's character and the
fearsome occupant of his body, and the mayhem the creatures wreak, though
sometimes described in gruesome ways, is virtually bloodless. That's about all
that can be said in the picture's favor, though. Forgettable fare for the
undemanding and, perhaps, Marvel movie completists.
Watch out for: Much
stylized violence with minimal gore, cohabitation, about a half-dozen uses of
profanity, a milder oath, at least one rough term, frequent crude and
occasional crass language and brief mature wordplay.
Rated: A-III, adults; MPAA:
PG-13
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