My Thoughts on “Annihilation” (2018)
(This is the poster for Annihilation (2018).) We finally come to the final review for October 2026, Annihilation (2018). This is Alex Garland's second film as director after he made his debut with the 2014 sleeper hit, Ex Machina , which I haven't seen and I'm still not sure if I actually want to watch that movie even after seeing this movie. Even I didn't hate this movie by any means, it didn't convince me that I would like Ex Machina or his other movies after this. He of course went onto direct two movies, both of them for A24 and both of them war movies released a year apart from each other, Civil War 🇺🇸 (2024), which is a sci-fi movie about a hypothetical second American civil war 🇺🇸 taking place in modern day, and Warfare (2025), a movie set during the Iraq War 🇮🇶 that focuses on a platoon of Navy SEALs during the Battle of Ramadi. He didn't direct that movie on his own, he actually co-directed it with a guy ♂︎ named Ray Mendoza, who wa...