Risen (2021)

A meteorite lands near a small Pennsylvania town. Everyone in town dies of toxic gas. 49 get back up with something else manning the helm. The Army brings in two scientists, but Dr. Laurie Stone, exo-biologist, is the only one that really matters. The other scientist tries to talk about his family, and even how much Dr. Stone's writing interested him, but she barely pays attention, which makes it near-impossible for me to give a shit about this Obviously Dead Man Walking.

The movie follows her, which can make for a somewhat dull viewing experience. Nicole Schalmo plays Stone as lost in her own thoughts. Her responses are nearly monosyllabic and slow to come. Always looking at something with her head tilted, like a dog that doesn't know what you're telling it. She finds a tiny red bud in the bowl of the impact crater, and doesn't tell anyone, which seems odd since this is exactly the sort of thing I'd presume an exo-biologist would want to investigate and notify people about. Nothing ominous there!

The movie hints at her being obsessed with science from a young age, trouble with her parents. There's a voicemail that mentions a DUI and court-ordered therapy. And there's a mysterious older man with a mustache we see watching TV reports or listening to the radio and smiling. Mysteriously, of course. 

One of the reanimated bodies starts talking, eventually. By that point, the bud is a much bigger problem, and things only get worse from there. The movie doesn't focus much on attempts to get rid of the invasion. A few perfunctory scenes of military impotence. Even as the rest of the world descends into panic and confusion, Laurie just sort of drifts, wondering why she isn't freaking out like everyone else. That, along with everything else about her, is revealed in a big info-dump flashback in the last five minutes of the movie.

It's like the end of a mystery, where the detective explains the whole thing, except the movie hasn't really been played up as a mystery. There's the question of the identity of the mysterious "Supernova94" who told the aliens about Earth, but we don't see any efforts to find them. So it's  mystery, but not one Laurie cares about, and therefore, not one the movie cares about.