A Major Disappointment Trying to be Artsy

Rating: 5/10 (14 November 2018)

I could take a very average film, shuffle the scenes out of sequence and a third of the viewers out their would hail me as a visionary and ooh and ahh about how artsy. We tend to see what we want to see and save our best arguments to convince ourselves.
This movie's most redeeming quality was that it wasn't as big a disappointment as "Blade Runner 2049". This wasn't a sequel to a great movie, "Annihilation" was just a movie that perhaps tried to hard to be artsy. It also seemed confused about what sort of movie it wanted to be.
There were holes of reality throughout. Like when the women were walking across the field to enter the shimmer, it was as if they were on a day hike, not the nations team to save the world. There was no support team, no new technology to communicate or stay alive, no instrumentation to record data, no large team tracking them or giving last minute instructions. I wouldn't even start as to why they sent these four women into the shimmer. Why would anyone sent these problem ridden individuals into such a vital mission.
I could go on and on. In case you haven't guess the artsy comments are about the last part of the film and especially the painful scene where the other being mirrors Portman's every move. When this movie ended, I thought the premise was good, but it could have been soooooo much better.