Annihilation

Synopsis

After her husband mysteriously reappears affected by what looks like radiation poisoning after being missing for a year, a biologist signs up for a mission to help her understand what happened to him.

Review

This is a cosmic horror, that is light on horror and heavy on mysterious thrills. There are for sure some well crafted and scary initially, they either last too long or you get too much time to see what is happening to worry about it.

This story is interesting and ends with a great mystery. But the middle section becomes confusing and requires you to really pay attention. The conversation about refraction and genes makes you need to focus to understand what is going on. Which isn't a bad thing for someone like me that truly enjoys movies, but for someone who is half interested, means that will mess something.

I think the team does a great job. I didn't realize that Tessa Thompson and Benedict Wong, both from the MCU in my mind, are in this. Tessa's performance was so good next to Natalie Portman. The two of them are able to talk at such a high level and yet never miss the emotional beats speaks to how well the writers worked together with the team.

My Rating

I really like Alex Garland's work. Ex Machina is one of my favorite movies, partially because of the Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens cast being in there. Then we have this with Natalie Portman who is one of my favorite actresses and I know I'm in for a good movie. He writes so well for the story and I just think this movie is underrated for movie sake. The horror is a little light for what I remembered, but it is a great thriller. Good writing + good acting from most of the team + really nice CGI makes for a good movie. This is an 8.

Parental Rating

There are sex scenes, well the same one multiple times, plus some violence. Some gnarly animals that are just creepy to look at and full of blood. The bear alone will push my mom to a no and my dad will not like the language. Rejected by both.

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