This could have been weirder still and I wouldn't have minded, but even as it is, Annihilation doesn't do badly on that front. For the most part, the threat feels more visceral and bodily (and perhaps psychological) than, as it is in the book, holistically mental and existential, but it comes through powerfully, and the various dangers of the party's journey into the Shimmer (and to the Lighthouse) are all convincing.
As does any film in this terrain, it brought Monsters to mind for me, although it's considerably wilder and more spectacular (and speculative). Also, it almost goes without saying, both Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh excellent; also terrific is Oscar Isaac, and indeed I enjoyed all of the other principals too (Tessa Thompson's physicist, Gina Rodriguez's paramedic and Tuva Novotny's geomorphologist).
As does any film in this terrain, it brought Monsters to mind for me, although it's considerably wilder and more spectacular (and speculative). Also, it almost goes without saying, both Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh excellent; also terrific is Oscar Isaac, and indeed I enjoyed all of the other principals too (Tessa Thompson's physicist, Gina Rodriguez's paramedic and Tuva Novotny's geomorphologist).
