Review Film Review Annihilation is an intelligent and frightening cinematic experience. It's also bound to be polarizing in that way that only smart science fiction can. Alex Garland's visionary, unsettling "Annihilation" doesn't fall into the same neat categories as so many recent films in what has been a sci-fi genre boom of late.

Annihilation is a women-on-a-mission film — a five-strong team, each member with a different skill set (a biologist, a physicist, a geologist, a paramedic and a psychologist), are sent to. 'Annihilation,' Alex Garland's follow-up to 'Ex Machina,' stars Natalie Portman as a scientist investigating the cause of mysterious deaths in a Florida forest. While it's not as intellectual or abstruse as some reviews may lead one to believe, Annihilation does put enough spins on familiar tropes to feel fresh and novel; it's not the usual Aliens clone. Parents need to know that Annihilation is a brainy but amazing sci-fi movie from the director of Ex Machina and based on Jeff VanderMeer's novel.

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It has several creepy, scary, and/or unsettling scenes, as well as scenes of blood and gore, monster attacks, guns and shooting, and death. Garland likes to play with tones, mixing deadpan in with the frights, and later "Annihilation" becomes something of a head movie, swirling with cosmic and menacingly lysergic visions. With Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong. A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply. It stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac. The story follows a group of scientists who enter "The Shimmer", a mysterious quarantined zone of mutating plants and.

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The annihilation of the film's title is the self-directed kind, and it's working on a molecular level, even when the Hollywood narrative trappings of the film let it down. The film's imagery - rich, dreamlike, Venus-fly-trap disturbing - deserves the. What is it about having "Annihilation" in the title of a video game movie that just seems to lead to garbage?

Anyhow, Doom: Eternal was great, so let's talk about a Doom misfire. Our Annihilation spoiler review digs into Alex Garland's weird, wonderful new movie starring Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Annihilation is mesmerizing and its awe-inspiring conclusion will leave your mind blown and splattered against the wall. In its final, surreal biopsychological moments the movie goes to an astonishing interstellar gear.