Review of Annihilation (2018) by Joecool — 15 Apr 2019
This film has some really nice visuals. Nothing like Valerian of course but nicely done for the budget. More women scientist trying to save the day nonsense. Having it take 3 years for the military to succeed at anything that could be perceived as life-threatening is an insulting bad joke. It's all metaphores for self-destruction and cancer and what not. I'm really not into metaphores for the sake of metaphores. No hazmat suits to go into the shimmer, absurdly long timeperiods pass but the batteries on the camera last a whole year. Too many things just don't make any sense.
The idea was interesting, I'd guess they could have come up with something better if they'd had a bigger budget, but it's pretty flawed to me storywise. Nice visuals so not a complete waste of time, but otherwise pretty meh.
This review of Annihilation (2018) was written by Joecool on 15 Apr 2019.
Annihilation has generally received positive reviews.
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