Less is more, or more is less?

Rating: 9/10 (11 March 2018)

What can be said that hasn't been addressed?
It's a minimalistic yet skillfully broad sci-fi storytelling. I say that in a sense that it's not overdone with unbelievable special effects, rather minimal approach to CGI, both budgetary and tastefully. The effects are just that; effective. Nothing more.
The story is indeed "heady" and if like to be challenged in any kind of cinema, this one will leave you thinking, and frankly, that's what we need more of; balanced film making.
Brings forth a nu-weird-fiction story line to fruition with and succeeds where other visionary directors go to their safety nets and the wheels come off, Garland takes the reigns and makes this film special. It's HIS film, not some studio fluff, much like his minimal approach to his previous film Ex Machina, it feels real. His "world" here in Annihilation feels real, personally I was captivated from it's first introduction, swept into a unique otherworldy experience paired with amazing sound and score. The film turned me into a mouth breather not once, but at least three times.
This is the wave of what I hope to see more of...directors with vision that remain true to their work and leave a stamp of integrity on important genre cinema. Garland has done that here. See this on the big screen.