Deserves a higher rating

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2018)

The film can definitely split viewers. I can see how it might misfire and put off some viewers. It's slow, thought provoking, layered, and thematic, but that's what I like about it. It does spoon feed you at times, at least insofar as what the plot's about, but it leaves its themes fairly open for interpretation (even though some of those are fairly straightforward). In my opinion it was tighter and better paced than the book, but it sticks to the source material closely. Visuals were striking. I'd put it up there with Arrival as two recent sci fi films to check out if you haven't.