 You'll never look at a kaleidoscope the same way again Hey guys, this is my review for annihilation a movie. I've been very much looking forward to Alex Garland is by far one of the more entertaining and Definitely more intellectual up-and-coming directors in the recent years. He blew everyone away with ex machina Fantastic movie about artificial intelligence that gave us Alisa backander And it was a really cool movie and it gave us creepy Oscar Isaac and This film is his follow-up and the whole time I was just wondering is this going to be better? And in my opinion it is Ex machina was a very small movie was a very intellectual movie But it was a small movie annihilation definitely broadens the scope and it is a literal identification of science Friction, you know when you go to the bookstore and you go to the science section you see these Books that are about these universes that it looks like you need a textbook just to understand It's those kind of books. That's what this story is like in terms of its delving into the idea of science and the idea of genomes of DNA of actual laws of science that we live and breathe and now being completely flipped on their head and that is what this movie is annihilation is about Natalie Portman who goes in with this team of researchers scientists and marines goes into this area where this shimmer has happened this weird kaleidoscope like prism thing is going is slowly erupting from this lighthouse where a rock from space hit it and It is changing everything around the area and this shimmer this dome is Slowly expanding and they have to figure out what happened there because one it's not stopping and it could consume the planet And to her husband Oscar Isaac came from The shimmer, but they don't know what's wrong with him first off of the one thing I thought it was kind of interesting that the movie just Kind of questions and doesn't bother to answer which I thought was cool was the fact this entire research team is female They don't really address that they just have it as that and I thought that was cool When they go into the shimmer though everything starts to get really Weird but really cool everything from the visual perspective to the intellectual the science perspective will constantly keep you Glued to the screen you're gonna be hit with a barrage of emotions and curiosities the instant they hit the shimmer because everything they see is intriguing questioning horrifying and Amazingly beautiful almost at the same time and that's the point of what's going into this world is From the instant that they enter it things begin to change and the question is whether it's for the better this movie will slowly start to dip more and more into weirdsville up until the ending where it goes full-blown weird and I'm honestly gonna be probably spending the next few days Watching videos of people explaining what the ending means because I have my own idea of what I thought the ending meant movie might like hold your hand like this up until that point and then this is gonna let you go and it's gonna just be like all right figure it out for yourself and That's actually pretty good. I like that. This movie doesn't hold your hand. It leads you to Kind of interpret things as they are Admittedly it goes really bananas weird in the ending, but everything leading up to the ending is So Interesting I had a massive smile on my face the whole time as I was trying to figure out what was happening Figuring out the aspects of these characters and just figuring out what the shimmer was doing to the world for performances This is one of Natalie Portman's. I think this is one of her best performances in a long time I think this is like one of her best ones since black swan because this is really dipping into weird and she goes full Through with it. The only one that I would say is kind of Is Jennifer Jason Lee in the character that she's playing She's supposed to be this heartless Removed emotionless person, but she has takes it a little bit too far in my opinion and kind of looks like she's just Dead inside. I know it's playing into the character, but there's a few lines She delivers that are just like okay, you put no effort in that at all Did you in the end annihilation is definitely a out there sort of science fiction movie? It doesn't really hold your hand. It definitely doesn't at all in the ending, but it will give you such an intriguing a captivating Look into the idea of a science fiction reality That you're going to go along with it full smiles if you're a science fiction fan If you're not if you're not really into movies, I leave stuff up for you to interpret You probably won't enjoy this as much as I did But it is definitely one of my favorite movies of the year so far so in the end I'm gonna give annihilation a six out of seven. It's a definite watch You should definitely go and watch it if you consider yourself a science fiction fan If you consider yourself a fan of any of Alex Garland's work Alex Garland is in a lot of movies with Danny Boyle over the years He did sunshine. He did 28 days later The guy also was the writer for dread so Alex Garland is a pretty good Sci-fi writer anyways guys. I hope you enjoyed this review if you liked it Maybe leave a like down below and if you're interested in more maybe subscribe anyways guys it's all from me See you guys next time