![]() ![]() It's an imperfect, but wildly original sci-fi film that still deserves attention. ![]() It's wildly original, and damn it all it takes risks and we need that in our sci-fi. Annihilation backs up its sci-fi visual wonders and visceral genre thrills with an impressively ambitious - and surprisingly strange. I really can't deny I was genuinely intrigued the whole way through, and there were some scenes (especially one with a bear) that I was completely gripped by. There is an amazing dreamlike quality captured both in the visuals and the narrative that really is amazing. One moment it'll be disturbing and awful, the next it will be amazing and dreamlike, and that's kind of the point. But on the other hand, god damn is it beautiful and spooky and horrifying and wonderful and just so much. It's weird choices like that which I can't ignore and keep this movie from perfection. To the latter, we know from the get-go that Natalie Portman is the only survivor of the expedition through a narrative through line of her telling this story to scientists, which does dissolve some of the tension. There's some weird pacing choices, sometimes for the better making you feel as disjointed as the characters and not knowing what to expect, but other times there are moments that seem to drag in weird ways or weird bits of explanation. Starting as a moody sci-fi and taking turns into horror and ending in a realm akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Annihilation is a weird journey.
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