Take 1: You can see how Oscar Isaac is really handsome and Natalie Portman is really beautiful, right? Putting them into a FX-rich setting with a cast of mostly women warriors investigating a Matrix-y alien lifeforce in Annihilation should be a slam dunk. But it isn’t.
Take 2: In Annihilation, Oscar Isaac plays with a loop of intestine as a squad of women descend into E.T.’s rave.
Take 3: Annihilation is Stalker redux, and it’s really, really good and disturbing (I know this because I keep thinking about it).
–June 30, 2020
