As pretentious as "Arrival", but even more boring!

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2018)

I am getting tired of movies nowadays. It is either brainless like Marvel, either mental masturbation like Arrival or Annihilation. Can't there be something halfway?
So, about Annihilation, we know the drill. It's this kind of artsy mind-numbling self-praising intelluctual movie. The kind of movie that strives to deliver its philosophical message, with no respect to plot consistency whatsoever. I won't list all the incoherences in this movie, there are way too many and other reviews did it better. I am so fed up with these pretentious movies trying to be smart
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The pacing is slo... oh sorry, I mean "contemplative". The timeline is messed... oh sorry, I mean "non linear"
I can't believe how pretentious this movie is. The kind of movie that wants to make you feel stupid if you don't praise it, because you didn't understand the message. No. Just no. A movie isn't simply a way to deliver a philosophical message. A movie has to be some kind of entertaining at some point. This one is not. It is pretentious, boring and self-absorbed.