Pretty Decent Premise, Very Badly Delivered

Rating: 4/10 (13 January 2019)

Annihilation does have a pretty decent premise, but I'm afraid the film is a long, slow, meandering mess, with (as others have detailed) a very long list of plot holes and logical inconsistencies. I won't repeat them here (no spoilers), but there is a LOT of them and they really did prevent me from engaging with the movie.
At times the cinematography was very good, but the CGI was rather clunky at several points. The cast have very little to work with and their performances reflect that. There was far too much exposition, too many pointless flashbacks, very little character development and it was hard to care about any of the characters or engage with any of the situations in which they found themselves.
Annihilation, for the most part, felt vacuous and pretentious. However, at times, it did look very pretty - and I'm afraid that's about the nicest thing I can say about it.
Pretty poor effort - 4/10