I wanted to like this movie more, but man... The plot holes! I can suspend my disbelief up to a point, but this was ridiculous.
- Big chechov's gun that never goes off... The boss's face is never shown (conspicuously), and he's the one who sends her on this wild goose chase into the wild, but it's never brought up again. It wouldn't be unreasonable to guess that he's a halfling, but there's not a good reason he'd send her out there
- They live in a bunker without running water for months, but there's no indication that they live near a stream or collect rain water
- Dakota Fanning is missing for at least a few months. Who's paying her rent? Her landlady nor her boss reports her missing to the police?
- The professor's office is preserved for 15 years via a student donation fund. Really? Really?!
- These people have been in this bunker for months, and have never looked under the rug. OMG, there's a trapdoor down there! As if after watching "Love Island 12" for the 100th time they wouldn't poke around their one room a bit
- The professor is supposedly convincing 13 men a night from surrounding towns to come into the forest to build an unground bunker. And this supposedly goes on for YEARS. So no one notices that the local population is being decimated? And none of these tradesmen ask "hey, who was working on this before? Where are they?" This professor singlehandedly killed more people than the Iraq war
- Why are the faeries trying to study and imitate humans if they can't leave the magical forest?
I just saw Fanning in Ripley, and thought her wooden performance made sense there; her character is jaded, directionless, and a bit of a dead-behind-the-eyes mooch.
But then I see Fanning doing the same character in the Watchers, and now I'm left wondering if maybe she's just a bad actor.