It was pretty but it was bad, well it was pretty bad

Rating: 3/10 (15 March 2018)

Whoever wrote the dialogues and screenplay should be annihilated. Once again, Hollywood creates a Sci-Fi movie that creates a team of all scientists, where the scientist behave like unprofessional juveniles. I just can't understand why they go down this road. Successful movies in the past have put together a team of jocks and nerds and wrote a good back story that logically places them together in that scenario. Something goes terribly wrong and then our jocks and nerds, who otherwise would never mingle, are compelled by circumstances to work together to figure out their survival plan. This diversity of character traits allows for: deep intellectual inquiry from nerds about the sci-fi part; overblown act first think never behavior from jocks about the action part; and a dysfunctional team behavior from both to fuel the horror part. The movie progressively kills off the rude jocks and the arrogant nerds until the last person standing is a woman with a good heart. This is pretty standard and straight forward to execute. The writers of this movie apparently were sick the day that taught screenplay at drama school.
In movies, nobody likes to watch women get badly hurt or killed on screen and consequently an all female scientific team headed into danger zone is a tough proposition to pull off. While it has been done before, Annihilation is unable to pull it off. Had the dialogues been profound, they might have correlated with the stunning visual scenery in some parts of the movie. Unfortunately, the phenomenally lousy script was either boring or annoying. I can't recall a single quotable line from the entire movie.
I wonder who the target audience for the movie is supposed to be. Those who might overlook the mind numbing stupidity of the movie are not the types who would come to watch a Sci-Fi movie of their own volition. It is the opposite of' those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind'.
Given how gratuitous and cliched the horror was, with the Shimmer mutating the movie from a sci-fi into a creature feature, I half thought that Harvey Weinstein would show up in the middle of the night to attack our group of all female scientist protagonist and they would exact sweet revenge. But nope, its just a boring typical ugly-ass animal and women in bondage scene.