Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)
Annihilation, truly impressed me as a perfect example of how unimaginative and downright stupid Hollywood blockbuster movies have gotten lately....No, that's not Sigourney Weaver from
Alien, that's Natalie Portman stuck in one of the worst of the new big budget sci fi films, that I've seen.
It's pretty evident from the lackluster acting that the actors didn't have much faith in the script or maybe they just plain didn't care...There's one main rule to action-thriller-horror movie making, you need to have the characters reacting like the stuff on the green screen is real! That way they convince us to suspend our disbelief, so we can buy into what we're seeing. They didn't believe their roles, so either did I!
Annihilation brings nothing new to the table. It's the same old rehashing of past sci fi ideas. Even worse, is that so many camera shots/scenes were stolen from other movies, that I can't even name them all. Though I had to laugh at the scene in the above photo, I hope Ridley Scott got a credit for that one...Then there's the scene of three of the team specialist tied to chairs as a deranged team member holds them hostage...then in comes the
Thing, I mean the bear, ha! That was very reminiscent of one of
The Things most powerful scenes. How embarrassing for the director of
Ex Machina to turn out this junk.