I’m late on this, but I really liked Annihilation. It is a gorgeous-looking movie with a lot of slow, creeping dread, and centers women in the STEM field as the core characters of the film. I did like how trippy the last third got, plus the heavy synth score that was reminiscent of the director Alex Garland’s previous film Ex Machina.
Natalie Portman was fantastic in this, and this seemed to be one of the few movies I’ve seen her in where she actually has romantic chemistry with her male lead (Oscar Issac). She usually comes off as cold or removed with a love interest, but I did believe their marriage and connection. Plus, Portman is very much into feminism and advocacy for films about complex women, so I could see how she fit well for this cerebral film that felt like a mix of hard sci-fi with horror.
I felt it was a little long at two hours, I think a few scenes could have been trimmed or cut. But besides that, I was really into this, and it’s a shame it got dumped on Netflix instead of being in more theaters, it’s definitely a big-screen kind of movie.
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