Review of Annihilation (2018) by Neutralmilkh — 09 Mar 2018

If you have a problem with some some of the acting and the (initially) mediocre... that's fine, it threw me off too the first time I watched it. However, the second time I watched it with all of my information gathered, a lot of things clicked for me, such as why a certain character says the line, "It's a trick of the light!".

Summary before spoilers: The story's actually good in my opinion, characters are developed (if somewhat underacted and underwritten at points), the visuals are **** amazing, and it actually made me sit and watch the credits for a few minutes... I know it says its underacted and underwritten, but that's only in retrospect after my initial viewing which put me on the edge of my seat. So yeah, it's "almost" a 9/10. Best movie I've seen so far this year, there will probably be a bunch of better ones that come out, but yeah, for now, I love this one.

Also, as a response to Gloukas ridiculous belief that this is the worst movie ever made on a big-budget scale, I've written down a list of a bunch of movies that everyone will agree is worse than this one. -Transformers Franchise.

-Beowulf (2007)... it's obscure now for a reason.

-Pixels.

-Jupiter Ascending.

-R.I.P.D.

-The Last Airbender.

-Batman and Robin.

-Disaster Movie.

-The Fifty Shades Franchise.

-Charlie's Angels.

In terms of Science fiction.

-Battlefield Earth.

-Jurassic Park 3.

-Planet of the Apes (2001, the original is a classic).

-Terminator 5 (which is honestly more confusing that Annihilation since they just stopped giving a **** about the timelines.).

--At this point, I delve into much deeper "spoilers," so if you clicked on this knowing that it contained them, and you actually want to watch the movie, then you should probably turn back from this point.--.

My theory, is that this movie is about cancer, or relates to cancer in some way. It's about how cancer effects and changes certain people, especially the scientists, who might all be getting killed by "cancer" except for Natalie Portman... essentially, the ending with the plasma grenade might be chemotherapy, and the reason as to why the shimmer is in her eye and as to why Oscar Isaac is so weird is a sign that the cancer might be coming back... this just so happens to be a movie about cancer that pretends to be one about the unknown (which is revealed to be aliens). Anyway, this is just my theory, and it probably sucks ass, if you want to take this movie literally, the ending could just be that the "fake" Natalie Portman came up with a convincing story (albeit, with a bunch of "I don't knows," and also, she would have to know information about the other characters) or that the "real" Natalie Portman simply came back with a trace from the shimmer.