Review Annihilation

Doctor Omega

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Annihilation
Director: Alex Garland (“Ex Machina”)
Cast: Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac
Details: High on many people’s most anticipated films of 2018 list, “Annihilation” has everything going for it – a fascinating and ambitious premise, a strong and diverse cast of female talent, and this being Garland’s second effort following his superb directorial debut with “Ex Machina” and his strong writing work on the likes of “Dredd” and “Sunshine”. However it was last month where things took an even more interesting turn as Paramount sold off the international rights to Netflix.

As details emerged of the handover, namely that Paramount ditched it because film’s subject matter was dubbed too intellectual and not easily appealing enough for mainstream audiences, it only made the interest in the film soar higher. Sadly this adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s books, in which a biologist heads into an environmental disaster zone with three other scientists in search of her husband who went missing on a previous expedition, will only get big screen play in select markets – but at least on Netflix it will be seen.



 
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