IMDB gives this a 6.2 but I don't agree with their rating. This should be up there around 8.4. This was a wild story and wild effects movie. If Siskel and Ebert were still alive they would have been crazy about it.
Just remember, the alien is the "color".
A lot of people said negative things about John Carpenter's The Thing when it came out especially about the suspense and tension which they said it focused more on that instead of what critics wanted which was action and revelation. Yet Carpenter's work today got a major award and recognition as a masterpiece. Several people on here gave one or three stars and babbled on about things that they believed were flaws but weren't. I think this movie got overlooked due to COVID-19 and if there hadn't been a pandemic then there would have been a larger number of fans as opposed to simple minded critics.