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Rating: 6/10 (19 May 2018)

Annihilation
The best use of animal hybridization is a dung-beetle/dog that rolls its own poop to the garbage.
Unfortunately, the soldiers in this sci-fi film face much fiercer fauna fusions.
When her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) inexplicably returns from a failed mission in the swamps a year ago, Lena (Natalie Portman) is solicited by a military doctor (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to join her new team (Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez) as they return to the event to study the strange animals there and search for more survivors.
Inside the affected area, the group becomes susceptible to the Shimmer and turn against each other.
While the hybrids are horrifying and the biologically based plot is food for thought with eye-popping visuals to facilitate the more complex ideas, the overall story is confused between genres while the body-snatcher angle is just lazy.
Besides, most mutations in the bayou are not extraterrestrial but married siblings. Yellow Light
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