Not a mind-blowing enough

Rating: 6/10 (18 March 2018)

Dear readers, Annihilation is a phenomena movie in my country, Indonesia, because everybody talked about it but just few people review it. I'll review it here. Well, I know Alex Garland with its previous movies, The Beach, Deus Ex Machina, and Never Let Me Go and for me, those movies are amazing. They are showing from other perspective other than the eyes of human being. The effect of all those movies is quite essential for film history, because Garland is brave enough to explore the unknown world and how to make this idea being understood broadly. There are many haters of Garland. I am not a hater, but I criticize this movie Annihilation as the movie of not a mind-blowing enough. We understood about teleportation, mutation, dark essences, etc in Fringe's JJ Abrams, so the main story of this movie is not quite original. The alien attack and the changing-mixed DNA between flowers, human, and animal are already discussed by H.G.Wells. So for me the main story in this movie is not original and the plots are not so surprising. The ending is not as expected and there is no mind-blowing or twist plot at all. Natalie Portman is of course doing her best acting to be military scientist, but he can not lead the main story to be loved by religious people. The image of her is now atheist and non-God believer. If there was other cast, maybe the audience will relate that religious figure who is brave enough in this Sci Fi movie. Garland, himself, for me maybe want to change the idea of Alien, that was seen as the threat, but the hero, whose DNA is better for human. Cinematography for this movie is great, but yet, this Sci Fi movie is not a mind-blowing enough for me.