A pointless plot holed pile of putridity

Rating: 2/10 (6 January 2019)

These days of bone-headed big budget science fiction films are very concerning. The "Bird Box" effect seems to be spreading like some viral plague across the inflicted biosphere of genre filmmaking. You don't have to have a solid concept, just some gimmick and a whole bunch of moronic characters stumbling around for 100 minutes.
Such is the case with Annihilation, a film so laden with pot holes it makes the streets of uptown New Orleans seem pristine by comparison. An object plummets from space and hits a lighthouse and immediately begins mutating everything in its path as it spreads across the countryside. "Scientists" and "doctors" set up a base to study the "Shimmer zone" and apparently keep sending idiots into the zone and of course, they never return. Except one guy who comes back, goes to his house, talks to his wife, and then starts spitting up blood and writhing in agony. Govt. spooks swoop in and take him and his wife to the base where it is determined that he's had massive organ failure and internal bleeding and she theorizes it could be a virus or radiation. So what does his doctor wife do? She goes on a mission with a few other women into the shimmer zone. No hazmat protection, nothing. Only rifles. There they encounter weird plants and animals which are being mutated by the force within the shimmer zone and they find a memory card with video showing some eel-like creature inside of one of the previous explorer's guts, to which one of the women shouts "It's a trick of the light! It's not real!" And she proceeds to be a complete idiot until her thankful death midway through this fiasco. I could go on, but I'm getting sick just thinking about this mess of a movie.