just finished this and it simply appears they had so many things going on they couldn’t truly resolve anything.
too many to mention, but what the heck was truly going on with Liam stands out like a frostbit toe
I agree 100% It seems like some screenwriters try to make plots convoluted like that will make them seem complex but all it does is leave holes
1. Why did Jason seek out Liam? Are they somehow drawn to one another?
2. If Liam wasn't a carrier, why was Jason drawn to him? why didn't Shirley seek out Liam?
3. Why is Jason the only one comforted by the mammoth carcass?
4. If they are drawn to each other, why the overwhelming desire for Ronnie to flee? To protect his daughter? But Shirley killed her mother to propagate the parasite
5. If Ronnie was already infected, why was he slaughtered to be a host for the larva?
6. How could a parasitic insect larva compel an otherwise docile human's central nervous system to stalk and kill? I know a bot fly will lay its eggs on a mosquito and the larva will drop off the mosquito and onto the host. But the mosquito has 4 billion years of evolutionary programming to seek out blood. Shirley was a kind and gentle woman who savagely attacked her own mother?
7. What was the Russian guy's plan? why did he involve the cowardly black guy? if he needed to drill and he was working in a Russian mine, wasn't there a Russian guy he could trust to help him? somebody with drilling experience?
8. Did Ronnie "burn" his hand touching the mammoth? But Jason didn't and he snuggled the mammoth. Nobody who handled the tooth did. Carrie and Liam didn't. In fact, Carrie didn't get ill at all. Elena did but Carrie didn't
9. Why the bogus soliloquy from Frank about his whole life he has trained to be a "protector", but when his son was so sick with mumps he left him alone to go see the Elena? who was he trying to convince?
10. How did murderous, narcissistic Elena suddenly develop a heart of gold and take on the daunting task of raising orphan Carrie?
11. An eviscerated Ronnie doesn't smell enough to alert Carrie and Elena that he has been stuffed into the water heater closet?
12. In real life Ebola doesn't spread very well because it kills its host too rapidly. If these wasps can hijack the higher brain function of humans wouldn't the host be compelled to go to a more populated area where they can spread more easily?
13. If Liam wasn't a carrier and just a murderous sociopath at the tender age of 10 years old, how did the dog get infected? Did the dog find the mammoth carcass? Did I miss that? If the dog wasn't infected, why did he eat his master? Wouldn't a dog seek out any host it could find?
14. If Stanley Tucci was an American working for the London Metropolitan Police with no experience in the Arctic circle, why would he suddenly jump aboard a Snowcat all by himself and go looking for Henry? He seemed so smart and calculating and would know that it takes a lifetime of skill and expertise to go hunting for someone on a glacier
15. Does the London Metropolitan Police investigate the "accidental deaths" of Scottish citizens in Norway? If I get eaten by a grizzly bear in Canada a Washington DC city cop is not going to go asking around about me. Even if a Canadian calls some helpdesk and says that "it was muuurrrderrr!!!"
A million more questions
The least of which: If Henry had misplaced guilt because he shot the rapist being eaten by a polar bear and his guilt was misplaced because he was actually the father of Dan, then why did he alert the Mainland that Dan was covering up the murder? If he felt so guilty for shooting the rapist being eaten by the polar bear, why didn't he have remorse about shooting Stanley Tucci who was just investigating a crime that Henry himself reported?
There were two stories being told. The first was that of Pettigrew's murder, the second of the mammoth remains. Simple. The actions of everyone involved, however, do have repercussions, which cloud your view of the simple thread of the two main stories. Much as they would do for anyone investigating these cases in real life.
There were no "plot holes". You people need to stop using that term, as you clearly don't understand what it means.
Count me in. Felt like "Twin Peaks" meets "Fargo" meets <pick your favorite zombie movie>. I liked it in the end, though.
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