Review of Annihilation (2018) by Ajzeg01 — 21 Sep 2019

This movie was awesome! It was written for the screen (it’s based on a book) and directed by Alex Garland, who also wrote 28 Days Later and wrote/directed Ex Machina, one of my personal favourite sci-fi films! Annihilation is very much in the same vein as Ex Machina, it is a thinking person's artsy sci-fi film (with horror elements).

That genre does not appeal to everyone, but if you like sci-fi like Arrival, Blade Runner, Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, THX 1138 or, of course, Ex Machina, you will probably get a kick out of it! I actually don’t know how much detail I want to go into about this movie, I went in completely blind and was very pleasantly surprised! It only had a short theatrical run before being dumped on Netflix so I never saw any trailers or any promotional material.

I had never even heard of it until recently, so I recommend that you just watch it without knowing anything about it. You’ll be glad you did! It’s a hidden gem! Also, it has an all-female main cast, if you care about that sort of thing.