Annihilation

2018 "Fear what's inside."
6.8| 1h55m| R| en| More Info
Released: 23 February 2018 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://annihilationmovie.com
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A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

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Alex Garland

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch
Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
educallejero So. It seems that its enough to put some fantastical visuals here and there, plus an open ending that doesn't make sense but "it is cool" to make some get a little bit confused about the quality of a movie.This is trash. All the flaws have excuses "we are experimenting the events by an unreliable source""the aliens aren't good nor bad and don't want anything and aren't anything but a reflection"... except when the movie needed them NOT TO BE that to make the movie more entertaining. If someone question this: "We can't be sure if we can trust the one telling the story (unreliable)".Nah.Besides. The movie is just absolutely boring. And the characters half dimensional and BORING.
sarah-sarah_1 I can't forget Sheppard's scream in that beast's mouth ...
andrewdoyle74 Yes ok if you look into it yes some parts are very silly...sending in people with no masks etc... Only one person who knows how to you a gun . But there is good parts to it too.. one of those movies to watch with a few beers our a smoke our two ..
vistascan-48249 To put it simply, Annihilation is a sci-fi film with an all female cast. Natalie Portman is in the lead as the grieving wife of an army man who vanished a year ago after going on a mission. Herself, a former soldier, she is now a professor of biology at Johns Hopkins. The weirdness begins when her husband shows up at her house with no memory of how he got there, only to inexplicably fall sick. As events unfold, we are told that there is a mysterious area in a certain part of the world called "The Shimmer", which is growing, but anyone sent in to collect information about it never returns. The movie is about the harrowing journey to uncover the mystery of this area as five women, including Lena, head into it. This is a sci-fi movie, and saying more would give away the plot too much.The rest of the cast is made up of Natalie Portman (Lena) ,Jennifer Jason Leigh (Dr. Ventress), Gina Rodriguez (Anya), and Tuva Novotny (Sheppard), all of whom play characters with specialized backgrounds that make them suitable for being involved in this mission, and all of them have their personal reasons to venture into this dangerous area. Portman does a brilliant job in portraying Lena's grief and regrets, and the way she carries on with a steely determination despite it all, hiding her constant vulnerability under a stoic mask.Jennifer Jason Leigh portrays Dr. Ventress with a coldness that evident from the first time she walks into the frame. That coldness and cynical determination is maintained throughout the movie. Dr. Ventress is a character who clearly doesn't have much to care for, and yet her mission is important enough to consume all other priorities. The rest of the cast feels a bit unexplored in a sense. It feels like we should have gotten to know the remaining three members of the team in a much better way that we do, but perhaps this would have been impossible without stretching out the film to unrealistic lengths. We do get hints about all the characters from which we can extrapolate, but that is something left to the viewers. The two men, Oscar Issac (Kane), and David Gyasi (Daniel) are ancillary characters. While they do play their roles effectively, it is a refreshing change to see the female characters be in the forefront in a movie that's not about shoes or weddings. The movie has been called an allegory for depression, grief, loss, and regret. It is indeed, that, but it also feels like a journey into nature, realizing that nature can be in equal parts, both peaceful and terrifying; both beautiful and grotesque. Much like the life of Lena, where she is haunted by the things she had that she lost, and the things she may yet lose, unless she risks everything to preserve them. Throughout the film, this unavoidable fact of her life keeps chasing her just as surely as the threats inside this zone. The film also plays with questions of change and identity, subtly shaking our confidence in the familiar concepts such as our knowledge of ourselves, our knowledge of our motivations and our desires and our ideals, and in the end, the concreteness of our reality.Just as a disclaimers, I should say there are parts in the movie that are beautiful, and parts that are deeply disturbing. This is not a movie children can enjoy. The ending of the film, like many sci-fi films is open to interpretation. It certainly seems like this is by design, as the whole movie is about questions. Questions about paths not taken, things left unsaid, decisions made only to be regretted, identity and constancy, and so on. Annihilation is a moving film wrapped in a beautiful sci-fi package.