Looking into the sum of all parts that make up Annihilation it is hard to believe that Paramount cashed out and dumped it onto Netflix.

It has all the right ingredients, a stellar cast headed up by the amazing Natalie Portman, a fantastic cutting edge director in Alex Garland—the guy who brought us one of my favourite science fiction films of all time 'Ex-Machina'—and a really great story from the novels by Jeff VanderMeer.