Sci-Fi that requires you to look deeper.

Rating: 8/10 (4 February 2017)

This movie actually requires you to pay attention so for all those expecting action, warfare and a G. I. Joe type scenario, watch it again from a different perspective.
Arrival had 2 important messages for me and I hope others see the same after viewing it.
1. Mankind is too quick to declare war on anything they feel threatens them WITHOUT making the effort to fully understand the situation.
Look at our current leaders of the first world nations - the USA, China, Russia, the UK...all of them are full of s*#t, threatening and bullying those they deem lesser than themselves. There has never been a more USELESS organization than the United Nations (Palestine, Syria, Rwanda..the list goes on where these countries are at the mercy of the these so-called world leaders who couldn't give a flying f&#k!) which basically looks and acts like a front that has no substance and takes their orders from the very sources committing these atrocities.
2. While we don't officially have the tech to fly through time in either direction (by the time you read this review, opinion may have revised), the second theme is just as important as the first: learn from the past to prevent errors from happening in the present in order to protect our collective future!
We don't have an infinite amount of time so we need to act, however this doesn't mean be an a$$hole and pillage/steal/threaten/destroy in order to come out top dog / ahead of the competition. If everyone works towards bettering themselves, alone, instead of uniting to better humanity, 99% of the world and her beauty is lost to us.
Let's open our minds and hearts, understand both sides and try to make a better world for everyone.