Colossal (2017)

This was a bizarre film with a message that gets slightly muddled.
Gloria (Anne Hathaway) returns home after getting kicked out by her boyfriend (Dan Stevens). At home, she finds her old childhood friend, Oscar (Jason Sedeikis) who takes pity on this former party girl and offers her a job at his bar and provides her with some furniture for her parents' empty house.
At first, you root for them, even though Gloria has her eyes set on the underdeveloped Joel (Austin Stowell), a friend of Oscar's.
Oscar's bar is getting more customers than ever because of this incident of a monster in Seoul, South Korea. What's even weirder, Gloria is the monster, thanks to a bizarre lighting strike as a child. Who knows why the monster shows up in Seoul. She feels guilty having no control over its actions, which is why she stops drinking. And then Oscar also walks through the park to keep Gloria from tripping and discovers that he's a robot, also appearing in Seoul.
I thought nothing of that until Gloria picks Joel to sleep with over Oscar, which makes him angry and downright abusive and controlling to Gloria. He destroys his bar when Tim (Stevens) shows up, wanting Gloria back. He becomes a complete asshole, basically overnight, though in the flashback, you learn that he wasn't nice to Gloria, destroying her model house. And he threatens to kill people, by going into the park and stomping his feet, if Gloria doesn't listen to him.
The finale is decent. Gloria somehow scrapes the money together and flies to Seoul, which means that the monster appears in her hometown, wherever that is. The monster picks up Oscar and he gets scared and then the monster just tosses him away. Gloria walks away, unscathed. Gloria overpowered the jerk.
Now, she had already figured out that Oscar was upset with how inconsequential his life was, how he never left his small town. He feels small, it's that simple. At least that's what Gloria believes, I feel that it is because she picked Joel over him, sexually. Oscar was nice before that, but when he sees Gloria arrive with Joel, his demeanor instantly changes.
But Tim is also a jerk, albeit in a different way. Instead of being happy that Gloria finally has a job he believes that being a waitress is beneath her. I'm just grateful that Gloria ended up alone. No man is better than a bad man.
While this film does have a good ending, with the controlling evil being taken out, I feel like someone should have seen Gloria and Oscar beating up each other in the park before and intervened. Not even Joel or Garth (Tim Blake Nelson), Oscar's other friend, did anything to stop the nasty actions from occurring.
I just feel like this film should have gone differently and been better because I felt that the talent was largely wasted. Grade: B-