Alex Garland
Fans of this ongoing horror narrative will find much to appreciate in its latest chapter.
In this dreamworld, the politics don’t matter. It’s the artfully gruesome spectacle that counts — that and the hackneyed Hollywood storyline about the hardened veteran mentoring the neophyte through an initiation into the harsh realities of the profession.
I wish I could state unequivocally that this is a film perfect for this moment in time, and perhaps it is. But not in a good way.
Annihilation wants to be a big movie about big ideas — what we get is a flawed impersonation of one.
Film Commentary: Zombie Apocalypse, Re-Imagined — The Legacy of “28 Days Later”
Where is the grandiose zombie apocalypse that illuminates the grotesque reality of the death-denying yet death-obsessed beings we’ve become? Ralph Fiennes knows.
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