Annihilation

Starring Natalie Portman, it's a thinking person's sci-fi by the director Alex Garland who did another thinking person's sci-fi, Ex Machina.

Lena (Portman) is married to Kane (Oscar Issac), both military. Kane returns from a dangerous mission to "The Shimmer" a changed man.  He is unable to remember how he was the only one to come back.  Lena is kidnapped and taken to Area X and  pressured to join an all-woman team headed by Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to back to the Shimmer to find out what happened.

The all woman team (Aliens) in the dangerous jungle (Hunger Games) makes for a pretty interesting, if somewhat slow to develop movie.  But the ending is worth the wait.  Like Richard said, it will a movie you'll want to discuss afterwards.



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