Sad reminder of the lack of true classics in this generation

Rating: 2/10 (20 January 2017)

What's good about this movie: The strongest point of this movie is the well-developed emotional arch for the female lead, which makes a rather nonsensical plot line somewhat relatable at least on the emotional level. Now on to the bad: The idea of friendly and benevolent alien face off with idiotic, paranoid and violent human is nothing new. Also, as some may have already mentioned, many of the plot details are laughable at best and rather insultingly nonsensical at worst. Crossing of barrier of space-time continuum, traveling billions light years to earth, an alien technology so advanced that they can defy the law of gravity and suspend aircrafts the size of a big island in midair, yet somehow, all the greatest minds and biggest decision makers on earth believe that such advanced being can be deterred by bullets, bombs and explosives. More unbelievably, even with the tightest security control, some idiotic crew members somehow managed to sneak in a c4 explosive and hopefully blow the aliens away with a single C4. Near the end, soldiers can just ride up in 4x4s like whole bunch of cow boys and spray bullets at the alien air crafts while the Colonel sit in the room like a dumb ass without any control over the situation. The whole movie is a smear campaign of China and Russia. It just feeds right into American's fear of the rising Chinese power. Somehow Chinese are scarier than the aliens, even though they are just fellow human beings. Communicating with Chinese or Russian somehow proved to be more difficult than communicating with aliens. What a load of bullock. Yeah, China is going to destroy earth, but alien saves the day. The fear and alienation of Chinese presented in this movie borderline racism. But don't worry, one single phone call to the Chinese General and some whisper of his wife's dying words will change everything and finally we accomplished the ever elusive world peace! Hurray! Except the two main leads: The scientist guy and the linguistics girl, every single human character in this movie come off like stupid arrogant ass and a disaster waiting to happen. Nobody seems to possess a single ounce of sense. And why bring a bird into the aircraft? If you want to test the air, shouldn't you let the bird in "before" human?