Arrival

2016 • 116 minuten

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When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - led by expert translator Louise Banks (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams) – races against time to decipher their intent. As tensions mount between fearful governments, Banks discovers the aliens' true purpose and, to avert global war, takes a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity. Oscar® nominee Jeremy Renner and Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker co-star in this mesmerizing masterpiece with a mind-blowing ending.

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This is a horrible excuse for a Sci-Fi movie, it's basically an indie film with a bigger budget. While I suppose there was some interesting concepts in it, most of the time I felt like I was tripping on acid. I was especially angered when at the end we find out that the lead lady has been grieving over the lose of a child who doesn't even exist yet! is this supposed to convince the world that women can be capable scientist too, just shows me that they are to emotional for any job especially one of this magnitude that involves mankind's' first contact with alien life.

Glad i didn't go to the theater to see this movie. I'm very disappointed in "Arrival". The attempt at infusing SciFi and symbolic melodrama was an epic fail. For me, this was the first SciFi movie where i actually wanted to stop seeing the Aliens. The characters are never developed and the scenes are all flat. I'm going to give it 2 stars because Amy Adams is in it although by no fault of her own her character is boring. The screenplay is as boring as the screenplay to 50 Shades of Grey. This movie keeps you waiting for the climax that never ever happens.

It's like the film doesn't buy into its own fantasy. I have a huge issue with Jeremy Renner being a physicist in this. It would've made more sense to have him be an anthropologist. Where scientists should've been is swarming all over the background. Swabbing things, lasering, spectrometering. At the end of the day there is virtually no relationship building and then BAM he asks her if she wants to f.