Review of Annihilation (2018) by Mustardtiger4 — 24 Feb 2018
Feeling underwhelmed from this. Typically with a good sci-fi movie, I leave the theater thinking about the movie and it's implications in our daily lives. In the vein of Ex Machina's exploration of consciousness and artificial intelligence's need for humans, Arrival's dissection of time, and even Blade Runner 2049's creation of a feeling through the exploration of a consciousness in a dystopic future.
Here, we have what feels like a typical survival movie wrapped in some interesting biological science. The major difference is that, the plot of surviving feels more central to the movie than the human implications of this biological phenomenon. I think a good sci-fi movie should package this in the reverse, where the plot is simply the device they express their greater idea. This was absolutely lacking in Annihilation.
Maybe it's because I went into this with the expectation of an Arrival-like experience, that I left disappointed.
This review of Annihilation (2018) was written by Mustardtiger4 on 24 Feb 2018.
Annihilation has generally received positive reviews.
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