Tarkovsky in Florida

Rating: 5/10 (23 February 2018)

Annihilation more than vaguely resembles Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) and it would have been nice if Garland had acknowledged his creative debt to Tarkovsky in interviews. Garland even appropriates Tarkovsky's obsession with water imagery. The CGI in Annihilation isn't bad but the level of suspense doesn't even approach Stalker.