throbert Review of Annihilation

Annihilation (I) (2018)

Dejá vu, subpar CG and the stupidest ending since H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds

[5/10 · 24 May 2018]

It is another of the utterly superfluous and pointless feminist movies. Accent not on feminist, but on pointless, (although I know everyone who's out for revenge for thousand years male domination, will deliberately misunderstand and will vomit blood on me). I'm not against a feminist movie, I'm against a stupid movie. Why there is an all girl group against the ET, because the male soldiers failed... Would have been too hard to look for a convincing reason? Like genetics, anything along the lines of "female is the original, male is mutation" (which is true), so the ET (yes, I won't take seriously that alien), affects female genes differently than male ones. Or any pseudo-science blabla. No, it's because males failed. Please send after every lost battle women to succeed where men did not. How stupid is that? Still the movie is not all bad, it starts exciting, expectations raise, but in the end it fails miserably. How dumb that ending is? I've seen this (without giving away any part of the plot) like a hundred times in my life. From Wells to Dick to the Astronaut's wife and the list goes on. It is a movie you've seen a lot, with different actors. Typical Hollywood rebranding. That is why I mean this movie is superfluous. A cash in on Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac, but above that utterly pointless. BTW, if you have money for Natalie Portman, how come you don't have for proper CG. The FX here are from the 90s. Don't misunderstand me, I can live without CG, but here it is so bad (e.g. the rigging of the animals) that is distracts me. It should create a convincing world, animals with modified DNS, but Robot Chicken delivers better animation... It is a 5 movie, if you don't watch it, nothing happens, if you do, it is all the same.