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# Annihilation

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## Description

Cellular biologist Lena's (Natalie Portman) husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) suddenly returns from a mysterious region known as "the Shimmer" after being missing for a year. When Kane falls into a coma, Lena joins a scientific expedition to the area where she and the rest of her team encounter mutated creatures and strange hybrids of plant and animal life while realizing that they themselves are being altered in bizarre ways. Based on Jeff VanderMeer's novel, this visually stunning sci-fi tale co-stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson. 115 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.

Review: Probably the best film of 2018 - So far the only movie of 2018 I bought on Blu-ray. I loved it so much I want to reprint my blog post from Independent Ethos. It tops the list of what I think are the best films of 2018 at the halfway point of the year. I'll admit, Annihilation‘s position at number one is very personal and far from objective, as it certainly isn’t a movie — from a major studio, no less (Paramount) — for everyone. A surreal blend of science fiction and horror that will frustrate plot hole obsessives, this film speaks to the core of how I prefer to be entertained by the medium of cinema. I’m referring cinema in the true theatrical sense, as the sound design — from the film’s score to its sound effects — begs for that isolating experience in a large room in front of a big screen. Director Alex Garland based his script on the first book of Jeff VanderMeer’s “Southern Reach Trilogy.” Its plot involves an armed research time entering a new land created by a meteor that crashed into a lighthouse. A pearlescent dome called “The Shimmer” encapsulates the lighthouse and has gradually expanded over time to cover the land around it, dubbed Area X. No exploration team has ever returned from it, save for one man, a soldier named Kane (Oscar Isaac). After acting strangely in front of his biologist wife Lena (Natalie Portman), he is soon stricken ill and ends up comatose. Lena volunteers to join the next small crew to enter, a diverse mix of women including a psychologist and a botanist. What they find inside includes genetic mutations and a warped sense of time and place, where nothing seems to fall in order of the science we know on Earth. During their adventures toward the lighthouse, which include encounters with things and scenes that are horrific, surreal and beautiful — sometimes all at once — the women, including a terrific Jennifer Jason Leigh as the psychologist Dr. Ventress, their numbers dwindle. A mix of ambivalence, enlightenment and menace, Ventress is key to the film’s ingenious reveal of what lies at the heart of the alien power. It’s not just because she has the best line alluding to the film’s title during the film’s most startling moment of pyrotechnics. Ventress is the sort of embodiment of life and death refracted in the world below the shimmer. DNA and psychology play a role that speaks to inherited neurosis and obsession, but also the sensitivity of DNA mixing between beings, where a kiss — or a bite — could change your construction and destiny forever. Annihilation is out there in a beautiful and fearsome way that makes the viewer aware of something else besides escapism or the present moment, a thoughtful science fiction film that is illogical in a frightful way because it’s based on something mystical in our biology. —Hans Morgenstern
Review: A Cool Blend of Classic Science Fiction, Modern Action, and Art House - An exciting, visually arresting, and symbolic science fiction film and worthy follow up to Alex Garland's superb instant classic Ex Machina (2014). This film may not be as original, but works very well telling its intelligent story and definitely excels in awesome production values, special effects and dreamy atmosphere. In a traditional set up the military sends a all female team of scientist and soldiers, each bearing psychological baggage, on a potential suicide-mission into a mysterious area of spreading alien activity, a shining veil over a forest where time and nature are warped and -of course- no one has ever returned...well almost no one. Keen viewers will be rewarded with a thrilling blending of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out Of Space, Andrei Tarkovsky's classics Stalker (1979) and Solaris (1972), a bit of Arrival (2016), and a huge dose of Predator (1987). The film also has a unique and smart interpretation of alien life, human biology and self destructive tendencies. A pleasant surprise. Blu ray extras include some good making-of interviews with the cast and crew.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B079ZV7BVB |
| Actors  | Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Tessa Thompson |
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,734 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #139 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV) #464 in Action & Adventure DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (6,587) |
| Dubbed:  | French, Spanish |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 43206-3155 |
| MPAA rating  | R (Restricted) |
| Media Format  | Subtitled |
| Number of discs  | 1 |
| Product Dimensions  | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.05 ounces |
| Release date  | May 29, 2018 |
| Run time  | 1 hour and 54 minutes |
| Studio  | PARAMOUNT |
| Subtitles:  | English, French, Spanish |

## Product Details

- **Contributor:** Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Tessa Thompson
- **Format:** Subtitled
- **Genre:** Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 54 minutes

## Images

![Annihilation - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41jXloDD8BL.jpg)
![Annihilation - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71XtdtoZUfL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Probably the best film of 2018
*by S***D on August 3, 2018*

So far the only movie of 2018 I bought on Blu-ray. I loved it so much I want to reprint my blog post from Independent Ethos. It tops the list of what I think are the best films of 2018 at the halfway point of the year. I'll admit, Annihilation‘s position at number one is very personal and far from objective, as it certainly isn’t a movie — from a major studio, no less (Paramount) — for everyone. A surreal blend of science fiction and horror that will frustrate plot hole obsessives, this film speaks to the core of how I prefer to be entertained by the medium of cinema. I’m referring cinema in the true theatrical sense, as the sound design — from the film’s score to its sound effects — begs for that isolating experience in a large room in front of a big screen. Director Alex Garland based his script on the first book of Jeff VanderMeer’s “Southern Reach Trilogy.” Its plot involves an armed research time entering a new land created by a meteor that crashed into a lighthouse. A pearlescent dome called “The Shimmer” encapsulates the lighthouse and has gradually expanded over time to cover the land around it, dubbed Area X. No exploration team has ever returned from it, save for one man, a soldier named Kane (Oscar Isaac). After acting strangely in front of his biologist wife Lena (Natalie Portman), he is soon stricken ill and ends up comatose. Lena volunteers to join the next small crew to enter, a diverse mix of women including a psychologist and a botanist. What they find inside includes genetic mutations and a warped sense of time and place, where nothing seems to fall in order of the science we know on Earth. During their adventures toward the lighthouse, which include encounters with things and scenes that are horrific, surreal and beautiful — sometimes all at once — the women, including a terrific Jennifer Jason Leigh as the psychologist Dr. Ventress, their numbers dwindle. A mix of ambivalence, enlightenment and menace, Ventress is key to the film’s ingenious reveal of what lies at the heart of the alien power. It’s not just because she has the best line alluding to the film’s title during the film’s most startling moment of pyrotechnics. Ventress is the sort of embodiment of life and death refracted in the world below the shimmer. DNA and psychology play a role that speaks to inherited neurosis and obsession, but also the sensitivity of DNA mixing between beings, where a kiss — or a bite — could change your construction and destiny forever. Annihilation is out there in a beautiful and fearsome way that makes the viewer aware of something else besides escapism or the present moment, a thoughtful science fiction film that is illogical in a frightful way because it’s based on something mystical in our biology. —Hans Morgenstern

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Cool Blend of Classic Science Fiction, Modern Action, and Art House
*by A***Y on April 22, 2023*

An exciting, visually arresting, and symbolic science fiction film and worthy follow up to Alex Garland's superb instant classic Ex Machina (2014). This film may not be as original, but works very well telling its intelligent story and definitely excels in awesome production values, special effects and dreamy atmosphere. In a traditional set up the military sends a all female team of scientist and soldiers, each bearing psychological baggage, on a potential suicide-mission into a mysterious area of spreading alien activity, a shining veil over a forest where time and nature are warped and -of course- no one has ever returned...well almost no one. Keen viewers will be rewarded with a thrilling blending of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out Of Space, Andrei Tarkovsky's classics Stalker (1979) and Solaris (1972), a bit of Arrival (2016), and a huge dose of Predator (1987). The film also has a unique and smart interpretation of alien life, human biology and self destructive tendencies. A pleasant surprise. Blu ray extras include some good making-of interviews with the cast and crew.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ What Do You Do With A Horror/Sci-Fi Film That's Almost Perfect...Almost.
*by L***E on June 2, 2018*

Just received ANNIHILATION in the Blu Ray/DVD/Digital Combo pack.Like my title says, what DO you do with a sci-fi/horror film that's almost perfect. A projectile of some unknown origin crashes to earth at the base of a lighthouse on the ocean. It releases something the Government has classified as "Shimmer". It ic continuing to grow and envelope the land. Natalie Portman as a Biologist (whose husband is some type of Special Forces soldier) has been missing her husband for over six months. He has been listed as KIA when one day while she's in the shower, he just appears at their home. From there on, you become engaged in a government program that has been sending teams into the "Shimmer" but none have come back until Natalie's husband...Kane. Without releasing any spoilers that will do just that for you in the film, Natalie and four other women, soldiers and scientists, enter the 'Shimmer" to find out what happened to the other teams and what is the "Shimmer' doing as it spreads. Their nightmare begins once they cross through the barrier and gets worse from there on. I gave the film only four stars because as good as it is, the ending just throws you for a complete loop but ties up loose ends...almost. I believe you will enjoy it and Natalie is as good as always. Check the price out and buy it on Amazon.com. great price for an almost great film.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Annihilation
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