The Film feels like an allegory for itself. In the Shimmer, the closer you get to the center the more messed up everything gets. This movie is good on the outside, whimsy, smart, thoughtful. But once you start to peal away those onion skins and get closer to the center the less everything makes sense...I'm always for some crazy science fiction movie that is honestly just out there in it's concept. So I was quickly hooked by this "Shimmer". I actually thought the special effects would look worse but to be honest they look quite beautiful at times. It comes of as both whimsical and creepy in it's conception. For the most part the creature designs I found to be memorable and very nice to the eye. Simple and nothing totally over the top. The bear incorporating the screams I thought was also a cool idea. Although...It's established the Shimmer is a giant prisms that refracts everything. Yet somehow I can't get over the idea that someones screams get refracted into the bear? The more you think about it the less it makes sense which goes for the rest of this movie.Would I recommend this movie? Sure, as long as you don't think to hard about it. Even so, it's still an ok sci-fi flick I wouldn't mind watching again.

Yes ok if you look into it yes some parts are very silly...sending in people with no masks etc... Only one person who knows how to you a gun . But there is good parts to it too.. one of those movies to watch with a few beers our a smoke our two ..

Unlikehis debut venture, Annihilation is not everyone's cup of coffee. It's an adventure but with so many possibilities, which is either way ends with confusion and This movie exactly did that. For it's complicated structure the movie tanked at the box office but who cares! Garland and his team delivered one of the best movie of this year. Direction, Performances, Cinematography, Score, Sound Design, Production Design, Visuals, every goddamn thing was perfect & special credit to Sonoya Mizuno for her terrifying motion capture performance as an Humanoid. It was worth my time & who loves Andrei Tarkvosky's Solaris and his other features, I guaranteed you'll not disappoint.

The first 35 minutes is genius, it kept me very intrigued. Midway through it lost steam. By the final 40 minutes it went straight to the dogs. If you are in desperate need of a Sci-fi flick then maybe you can tolerate it.For some reason my biggest question and concern would be how did this seemingly random team of 5 women just mosey on into the anomaly aka The Shimmer? ... I mean the main protagonist wasn't currently enlisted in the military and just seemed to join the group. The whole time I was thinking if something like this actually happened the government would be all over it. Certain protocol and training would be required to go on such a mission. They literally just walked up to the force field wall thing aka "The Shimmer" with no radio contact or anything and just went on in.