Very mediocre

Rating: 5/10 (15 March 2018)

Annihilation starts off at a very slow pace, something I don't mind when it comes to movies that seem to have a complex and profound plot, except in this movie it never speeds up. I have had to skip seconds, even minutes at a time while watching it because A. as the story progressed I started getting extremely inpatient and B. I already knew or didn't care what was going to happen in most parts.
You get smart sounding, complicated words and theories thrown at you without any further explanation as if to say you are dumb if you can't keep up by yourself. The characters are uninteresting and one-dimensional and the movie is filled with unnecessary flashbacks that add no value. So you go through all of this only for it to end in an extremely unsatisfying manner.
Somehow it feels like Annihilation spends more time on trying to look profound, instead of actually putting some work in to BE profound. I hate to say this because it's probably the worst insult a wannabe-complex movie could get, but if you have seen the trailer, you have seen 90% of the movie as well.
I gave it 5 because despite of all this it does manage to be somewhat entertaining at times, and the idea of the plot is kind of interesting. So since I don't like reviews that are all negative and people who exaggerate saying they would give it a 0 if they could; the movie is far from horrible, it's just very average.