Like a serious, horror version of the «Ghostbusters» remake (especially with their uniforms and gear, though they venture onward, head - scratchingly, without gas masks), «Annihilation» boasts a tough, intelligent, accomplished,
capable team of women, each seemingly as comfortable with a microscope as with a machine gun.
But the conceit
of a young
woman teaming with her knight in shining armour is complicated in House
of Flying Daggers by the fact that she is more than
capable of taking care
of herself, except, fascinatingly, when the attacks against her are sexualized.