Now when I say worse I don't mean bad. And I know that it isn't inspired by the movie Stalker, but I just can't help to see the similarities.
Where Stalker is beautiful and mysterious, Annihilation isn't. There's guns, alien stuff, killer animals and moving organs. The beauty in Stalker, I find, is that it doesn't actually show weird stuff you would expect in the zone. It's just the characters and their mental state. Annihilation does this too, but way less deep.
It also botheres me that we also see that whole affair Lena had before she entered the Shimmer. To me it just was pretty irrelevant to the plot. I also wonder why they showed Lena after she got out of the Shimmer so soon and let her spoil everything about who dies. Bit of a bummer. I just didn't like the switching from one storyline to another (I guess the storylines are kinda the same storyline, but you know...). Because the scenes in the Shimmer were pretty intense and intruiging, but then they cut to Lena having an affair I couldn't care less about...
It also botheres me that we also see that whole affair Lena had before she entered the Shimmer. To me it just was pretty irrelevant to the plot. I also wonder why they showed Lena after she got out of the Shimmer so soon and let her spoil everything about who dies. Bit of a bummer. I just didn't like the switching from one storyline to another (I guess the storylines are kinda the same storyline, but you know...). Because the scenes in the Shimmer were pretty intense and intruiging, but then they cut to Lena having an affair I couldn't care less about...