The Thing (US-Norway) - A Scary Predictable Alien Movie

The Thing
Synopsis:
The movie started with a bunch of Norwegian scientist discovered a spacecraft buried beneath the ice in the antarctic in the year 1982. The scientist group lead by Dr.Sander Halvorson recruited Kate Llyod, a US paleontologist to assist him and other Norwegian scientists team to analyze the spacecraft. Also during that time, they discover a frozen alien corpse and decided to bring it back to their base camp for more research. They managed to obtained a tissue cell from the alien corpse for analysis and during their celebration of the discovery, the alien corpse came alive and escaped. The scientists splits up into groups to search for the alien and Olav (Jan Gunnar Roise) and Hendrik (Jo Adrian Haavind) discover the alien hiding under their base camp building. The alien manage to grab Hendrik and devour him while Olav calls for help. Unable to rescue Hendrik, they decided to kill the creature by burning it. Dr.Sanders decided to autopsy the alien that devours Henrik. During the autopsy, Kate and Adam discover that the alien somehow absorbs the cell of Henrik. During the day, pilot Sam Carter, co-pilot Derek (Adewale), Griggs (Paul Braunstein) and Olav decided to leave the base with the helicopter due to injuries to Olav. During take off, Kate discover a bloody pool of blood inside the toilet and some metal teeth fillings and suspects that something might be wrong. When she flagged the copter, Sam decided to land the copter to find out the reason. However, Griggs suddenly transform into the creature and kills Olav while the helicopter crashed in the mountain.Kate assemble all the remaining scientists and explains that based on her theory on the nature of the alien, it is capable of imitating any life form but it cannot imitate inorganic material such as metal, hence why it spit out the tooth fillings. Most of the team members do not believe her but soon some section believe her after their members has been killed one-by-one by the alien.  
Review:
This movie is a prequel of John Carpenter's The Thing which was released in 1982 that showcase how the alien came and kills all the Norwegian scientists. There was some rave reviews on the movie and i decide to check it out myself but i was not quite content with the end result. The movie started off nicely but then, it somehow slowly becomes like any other creature-alien movie. To me, there is no real scary moments and although the alien does look scary with the attachment of the human body, but that's about as interesting as there is to this movie. It slowly becomes a typical Hollywood monster movie even though it was directed by Norwegian director, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. I guess i expected something more from this movie where its predecessor has done so well during the 1980s. It was indeed a scary movie back then when The Thing was screened when i was a small kid back then. The movie is quite predictable with the normal element of scare and others.

Verdict:

I give this a 2.5 star over 5 only. Average and popcorn flick movie