 destroying it's making something new so do you want to know what's inside this hazardous disaster danger zone well I did my name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion hey what's going on everyone thank you so much for tuning into my opinion slash review for annihilation I really do appreciate it but before we get into the review help you boy out by clicking that subscribe button also click that little bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and give me that thumbs up let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes so now we have annihilation it is directed by Alex Garland he directed the film X Makana which came out in 2015 and I love that movie very much excel for the ending I felt that the ending let me down and it just did not live up to the hype but you know if you feel differently that's okay because I know a lot of people did enjoy that movie a lot more than I did or at least the ending now this movie annihilation is being based off of a book called annihilation as well I saw saw being based off the first film in a trilogy of books first one being called southern reach and I did not read that or the other book as well but it is being based off that it stars the people that I noted the most was Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson of course I know Tessa Thompson from Creed and she was also a Valkyrie and Thor Ragnarok which came out last year Natalie Portman of course she did Blacks one that came out a number of years ago and won the Oscar I believe she won the Oscar for best actress in the leading role that movie was fantastic I loved it from beginning in so I'm a fan of Natalie Portman didn't really like her in the Star Wars prequels but you know I was really interested in this movie because I am also really into science fiction and things like that and I'm very curious person you know so when I see the trailers like this to where there's like this hazardous dangerous zone and this other advertising it is like okay you know people going in but they're not able to come out and we're trying to figure out what's going on and you seeing Natalie Portman walk through all the wilderness with like an assault rifle and she's taking things out you know that really did intrigue me I'm like okay you know I'm on board with this you know but well I'll save that just for a second but for the most part I really did enjoy the film something that I noticed early on as I was like why I think this film past the the Betul test named after Allison Betul the Betul test excuse me if I'm not pronouncing that right and what the Betul test is it's a test that's in films that's been in Hollywood for some time to where you can have a scene to where it is only women in the scene and the women are talking for an extended amount of time I forgot what I tried to look up exactly how long it takes but I couldn't find it but it's women in the scene no men and they can't talk about men either so nothing but women in the scene and the women are talking about no they're not talking about a man or a or bounding the type of love interest anything they're just talking about other things and I think that the film past this on a number of times and that was like one of the first thing I noticed in the film now early on things were a little wonky for me maybe the first 10 or 15 minutes because things are bouncing back and forth I was unable to understand everything that was going on but at the same time I did not find myself attached to the characters or the story I just really did not care what was going on things really picked up for me when they actually got to the hazardous danger zone and when it was going inside and kind of describing you know what the what the the scientists were discovering you know through its inception of I guess crash landing on earth this has a very strong cast like I said with Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson there are five main female leads in this film I think they all did a great job also this film kind of lets you know early on who survives or who doesn't per se and that's not a necessary a complaint but at the same time it does take away from the mystery and there is a lot of mystery in this film that is one of the best things about it when they're in this zone you're just kind of just like they already know what they're in for but when they're inside this zone just trying to figure out what is going on why it's going on and just trying to figure everything out that is that was one of the most intriguing things to me just the mystery of it there's also a nice horror element to this film as well a lot of nasty images some things that'll make you kind of turn your seat and kind of hold your stomach and cover up or I like this I mean some of the designs from the creatures I found very fascinating some of them I found hideous they had a great design to them but at the same time I was like oh my god that's nasty I don't look at that right now that's disgusting but at the same time that's one of the reasons why I praise the film because you don't want to just be sitting there you know monotone just kind of stoic just looking at the screen I mean this film does kind to strike emotions out of you and I think that it did a great job there whether I was kind of swarming in my seat or not so the horror element was great I love the cast of the women I was very intrigued by everything and there I like how they spread everything apart by having one female one woman being a biologist the other one an anthropologist a psychologist a surveyor and a linguist and that's kind of you know seems kind of smart to me when you're kind of in this foreign territory just trying to make the best understanding what's going on because you need a biologist you need somebody that can read different languages you need psychologists to be able to you know decipher if everybody is staying sane or going insane or becoming a lunatic so I like the balance there but it's really hard to talk about without spoiling the film but really what comes down to it is since there is so much mystery behind this and you don't know what's going on in this hazardous zone what makes the film where there is great or bad to me is if the ending pays off because there are so many unknowns and you just want to know what is going on you know why is this happening and so you really want to know if it pays off and in my opinion the film does not pay off I was very disappointed with the ending I feel extremely let down by everything that went on I feel a little bit cheated and I don't think that that's fair the film started out okay then it got really really good and you're just so you know eager to find out what's going on and then they just kind of like to win completely left not just with the storytelling with the storytelling the characters and also the CGI elements of this film like the last 10 minutes of this film maybe 10 or 15 minutes I'm just kind of looking like what the hell is going on I think I have an idea what's going on after I left the screening I kind of stood out in the hallway a little bit I didn't want to seem like a creeper but I kind of like strike the conversation with some random people and then this other guy you know how y'all really understand what was going on and then this other guy came and we were all talking and I was like can I understood this I understood that and he was like yeah and you know this happened here and that's why this turned into this right here and that's why at the very end of the movie this was there was a reaction like this but it wasn't a reaction like that early on in the film and I was like okay I understand that that makes a little sense but at the same time I just still didn't like it I'm not saying that it's a horrible film I know that there are going to be some people walking out of this that you know really loved it I will say this if you was not looking forward to this film you probably don't want to go see it if you were looking forward to it or just didn't know still go see the film so if you're really looking forward to it go see it if you was on the film to go see it but this is just something to where you was like I don't know I needed to hear the opinion of other people this probably won't be for you but hey you know that's just my opinion then again you may like the film if I had to rate it out of a one out of ten and I also want to say guys the effects was great and the music and score was great too just that ending really let me down big time if I had to rate annihilation out of a one out of ten I would give it a six out of ten yes a six out of ten but guys that's just my opinion have you seen annihilation or do you want to see it have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going to keep it flowing if you liked this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't this fine go ahead and 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