He also has the best opportunity for an unintentional laugh-fest near the end of the tribulation, when he faces off against three opponents and manages to shed fifty pounds while shrinking four or five inches. The reason that the first film worked was that, despite the obviously lame onus of the material, Paul Anderson brought a certain sort of dignity to the proceedings. Whereas Cage and Scorpion did battle in an eerie bamboo grove and the necromantic cathedral of the kombat tomb in the original, here we get a robot ninja fighting with a guy with metal arms in a lab loosely lifted from Saban's set for Zordon's fortress. And she dies. In case anyone was curious, that's as fine an example of how to tell a viewing crowd that you'd love to piss down their throats as any ever seen on these shores.
Annihilation is an ugly movie.
A bad movie. A very, very bad movie. If you feel the need to take a shot of the Kraft to the brainstem, then rent yourself the Ice Cream Man and stomp the hell out of the cover box for this flick upon visual confirmation. Stay far away. Run, if you have to.