An awful indulgent film

Rating: 2/10 (29 March 2018)

This film has ad some buzz building about it so I have now seen Annihilation and i feel like this is a film you are either going to love or hate and I am one of the few people that hated this film. The plot of this film sees a group of women search an unknown location to work out what is happening there. Natalie Portman plays the lead in this film and she does an okay job, she does her best to try and get the best out of her character. Unfortunately, her character is just so bland and boring, there just isn't much about her that makes her interesting or to make you care about her character and her plight. The supporting cast has a lost of big names in it such as Oscar Issac, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong and Jennifer Jason Leigh.But none of these big performers give anything to their characters to make them interesting enough to care even though they are recognizable actors. and actresses. The story in the film is both familiar but also confusing and nonsensical, seeing this group of women together makes you think of more interesting movies where you actually care about the members of the team. Towards the end of the film this film just gets ridiculous and laughable to lengths i can't explain because I am not really sure what was completely going on. The script has very basic drama in it that as mentioned before doesn't make you care enough, and with no humor in this film this script is incredibly weak. The style of this film in a visual sense is absolutely breathtaking with luscious backdrops, but this doesn't make a good film. The pacing of this film is really slow and I was bored for the majority of this film meaning i checked out and didn't particularly follow the bizarre ending. Overall as mentioned earlier, some people might like this film but I just found this film very indulgent and a waste of potential.