comes so close to being excellent..

i agree with nearly all of your points regarding the 3rd act.

i think wilcott's "random suicide" was meant to be some sort of statement on how 'capturing the impossible' will end up killing you, and that people will willingly die/sacrifice themself in order to achieve the impossible. this could've worked alot better if his character was more realized. a lot of the characters in the movie represent some type of aspiring starlet trying to achieve fame, from the people who don't want it but get it anyways, to the people who literally force themself into a situation and end up getting literally swallowed up by hollywood for 15 seconds of fame.

the balloon death was anti-climactic, and one of the big negatives of the movie. i was hoping it would keep going after that, like maybe they just injured it, and then keke palmer has to go save daniel kaluuya inside the beast and kill it from the inside? i agree the film wrapped itself up extremely quickly and it disappointed me.

the creature changing form didn't make much sense to me either. it was a unique creature design that genuinely looked alien and otherworldly, but i don't get why the alien would go through so much effort to be stealthy and incognito for MONTHS, and then suddenly go full-moron mode and loudly reveal its true form in broad daylight? as if nobody would see it or hear from miles away at that point. i think it only should've done that out of desperation, like they mortally wounded it and it had to reveal its form to make a final stand.

yuen's character could've built up to something great. i figured the chimp subplot would feed back into the movie during the 3rd act. i now understand his subplot was a symbolic metaphor for the whole plot of the movie, that wild animals cant be tamed no matter how hard you control them, but it should've tied into a more physical plot point. i figured that the alien would somehow be able to manipulate animals, that's why it chose to dwell at a horse ranch.