Watched Annihilation. Certainly a fascinating film, but leaves a lot of questions. My problem with sci-fi is that sometimes it throws up way more questions than it answers, and this is in that category. That's why I prefer horror, because there is nearly always a basis in horror, no matter how weird - in horror you usually get some sort of explanation, often in the form of a legend or some tragic past event.
A film like this though lets the viewer largely make up his own mind, and usually reviewers mark that as a sign of 'an intelligent film', but is it really that or can the writer/director simply not answer the questions he brings up himself?
In this case it doesn't matter so much, because the film is real eye-candy, with beautiful colours as opposed to the usual darker images of a lot of sci-fi horror. This idea that an alien life form also creates beauty and isn't just out here to destroy and conquer makes it different to a lot of similar films.
It's great to see Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh together and they're good as always. Also the interaction between the team members is not of the 'let's go kick some alien ass' type, but they're researchers with real interest in the strange area and the mutations that go on in it.
Once you get to the end though what appears to be the lair of the life form in the light house, looks a little too much like Giger/Alien. With such a style of its own, why not make it something more unique looking? I got the feeling that it was a case of a director-as-a-fan wanting to recreate a part of a favourite movie.
Still on the whole a very interesting film just like the earlier Ex Machina by the same director. Perhaps not something totally new, but delivered with a different kind of feel than usual.