Well made but serious suspension of disbelief

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2016)

Great cinematography and most of the dialogue was solid. There are some glaring plot issues that you don't need to look into too deeply to reveal = SPOILER ALERT = ..... It asks us to accept that these aliens are way more advanced than us (spacecraft tech; interstellar capabilities; non linear time sensing capacities etc) - and yet believe they would need basic language teaching. Even if you disregard the fact that they would already know the teachings (as they know the future! - so upon meeting they already will have had those lessons and know the teachings); they are so advanced they would have detected our crude communication via TV/Radio etc and would have learned all earth languages prior to the "teacher" meeting them. It of course then means she has no teaching role in the movie and kind of kills the plot. But it is an inconvenient truth all the same. Also the sacrifice of the blown up alien would be preventable (they would know the future and so have been able to stop the incident) - but it somehow served as a SECOND COMING sacrifice to humanity and so am sure that even though it was predictable and therefore almost certainly preventable (precog style) - it could well have been put in as a Jesus v2.0 sacrifice.
Another slight plot issue is that the father of the child is not in the "flashbacks" (turned out to be premonitions) even though she would surely know who her future husband is (as well as future daughter). Of course, it had to be that way as showing who that is (will be) would give away the fact she sees the future (when we are led to believe we are seeing flashbacks)...
I don't think it was as gripping and realistic as Contact. It was still well worth seeing as it felt very credible until it moved into the realm of supernatural.