A "Heart-Popping" Thriller!

Rating: 9/10 (17 April 2018)

A few months from now, there will a daily heat index to monitor and football derbies to watch and weekend beach trips to plan. And you'll still be thinking about the closing moment of Annihilation.
I would not dare delve into it, only to say that it's one of the sci-fi thriller's many searing images. This is the brand of film that moviegoers should crave: Cerebral in its story and heart-stopping in its pacing. You thought Alex Garland's previous film, Ex Machina, was wickedly disturbing? The English writer-director delivers a similar meditation on the cutting power struggle between man and science - only now he's been given a sky-high budget. The result is a stellar, dazzling wowzer that opens itself up to theories galore. That's the mark of a true Thumbs Up.
Annihilation is a ferocious, feral, female-centric update of fearsome monster classics like The Thing and Alien.
Garland shows an unerring hand in building a sense of unease about what evil lurks in a forest that's been taken over by some kind of "other," and then making it pay off.
An enjoyable film for most of you.
But a "Must-See," surely.