Annihilation
Another Transcendence mindfuck. This one is a more blatant Tarkovsky ripoff, dumbing down Stalker and Solaris for us plebs (like producer nepo-baby David Ellison).
Alex Garland adds a touch of Apocalypse Now as well, back in the jungle. An intellectual Predator, over there…
The all female cast works very well, it is visually portentous, but there’s a lack of new ideas. There doesn’t seem to be any characters, actually. The development is pared down to a literal exposition dump in a boat, by the cute and helpful woman that is mauled by the bear-cow not long after.
Only the protagonist interacts with someone else than the protagonist. A waste of Tessa Thompson.
The ending is another doozy. You mean the protagonist transferred her self-destructing nature to the alien organism, and made it kill itself? She was spared by mental health issues!
Other than the bear-cow, this is similar to Transcendence, style over substance.
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