Kangaroo

Rating: 7/10 (2 September 2017)

May contain inadvertent plot spoilers for some people.
The aliens arrive on the planet in 12 places having to do with Sheena Easton songs...or not. Louise (Amy Adams) is a linguistics expert who somehow still has a Top Secret security clearance after 2 years (normally gone after 30 days). She is taken to the alien vessel to communicate with them, which is a struggle. There are 12 landing sites in all and everyone is attempting to talk to the aliens. The aliens are heptapods and communicate with rings that look like ink blots. Louise has flash backs of her deceased child...or wait...is it? Yes, not to give away the formula, but a linguistic saves the planet. I understand the confusion people get from the film because it utilizes the idea time is not linear in the final explanation and not too clearly. Now how the heptapods were able to perform the metallurgy needed to construct vessels capable of space travel without opposing thumbs is beyond me. Yes the film raised my geek endorphins to a new high and then I realized...(criticism) First off I don't think the DOW can lose 2,000 points in one day. They would shut down trading before that. I liked the level A suits for meeting aliens and the fact they had people dressed in protective gear to help don and doff them....but they shouldn't need the gear to help them on with the suits, just off. They should typically be dressed 1 level lower in protection to do doffing meaning level B suits. They were not. Again they confused radiation and contamination royally. An EPD and/or TLD should have been worn if that was the case, that way you don't do a blood test which can only detect levels beyond your legal limit. Canaries check for carbon monoxide levels not radiation levels and we have machines better equipped to do that. It made for a good visual, and if you are going to go all geek with circular sentences and non-linear time, take a minute to get remedial knowledge on radiation and contamination...my pet peeves with so called sci-fi films. Interesting film, but flawed.
Guide: 1 f-word. No sex or nudity.