As Natalie Portman replies during her interrogation scenes in Annihilation, 'I don't know'.

Rating: 4/10 (7 July 2018)

I don't know what writer/director Alex Garland was thinking. I don't know what the point of the film was. I don't know how so many silly plot holes could have made it into the final script. I don't know whether I ever want to see another Garland film again. I don't know what Jennifer Jason Leigh has done to her face.
Natalie Portman plays biologist Lena, who volunteers to join a dangerous mission into the 'shimmer', a mysterious, expanding zone caused by an alien force. Inside the zone, Lena and her all-female cohorts encounter strange mutated creatures and fear that their own DNA is being slowly assimilated.
A boring build-up to the mission; some brief excitement involving the mutated animals; a smattering of gore; lots of introspection and ponderous pretentiousness; plenty of scenes that take an awful lot of swallowing; and an ending that makes very little sense: Annihilation is the perfect companion piece to Danny Boyle's even more disappointing and even more perplexing sci-fi Sunshine, which was also penned by Garland.
One thing I do know: I won't be giving this one a second watch anytime soon.