Great story, not so great sci-fi.

Rating: 8/10 (13 November 2016)

Film "Arrival" based on short story "Story of your life" hard to judge. It is a great movie about First Contact with extraterrestrial life, determinism (fate) and some linguistic. Still, it had problems with science and some logic. Too many moments when you want to say "Enough. Call the real scientist". Despite all that I will write below, it is a great movie, but a question "Why they are here?" is not answered.
First thing: Do you know how many scientist are called, because of UFO? In the USA it two. Theoretical physicist and linguist. And at all, field laboratory looks just miserable, a dozen of tents and five pickups. Like, why someone should care about 500 meters flying egg?
And our two scientists must decipher language of aliens. Yep, the theoretical physicist is the right person to do it. In all movie, he did not do a thing as a scientist. All that he do in a movie, can be done by anybody without a degree. More of that, he is just for lulz. One scene from movie (approximately): "Ian: "Do you try to show them Fibonacci set, or etc.?" Colonel: "We can't even say hello to them, and you suggest so high matter. All laugh." Like intelligent space creatures will faster understand a word "Human" written on a table, but not science facts and laws which probably similar in the whole universe.
One more thing. The best linguist in the USA, and what did you do with her? Right, let she go inside the alien ship unprepared , where they control gravity, is possibilities of radiation and so on. It is safe of course. We check it twice. And you can use video connection between the inside of ship and laboratory, but why?
All these small details are so embarrassing that just destroy all science at the first half of the film. Of course, some science is good, and it was great to see WolframMathematica on theirs PC.
But mostly it is a drama about destiny and choice. The film is nice, story - great, picture - breathtaking and peoples in government are corrupt. I was not bored at all. Some flashbacks of the main character look unclear for the moment but their sense opens at the end.
It all opens at the end, and it is great. Bad thing is that answer for the question "Why they are here?" is StarWars classic "these aren't the droids for which you search". But if you are immune to this Jedi things, you can say: "Hey, but why did you come? Come back, now explain it to us, not just to Louise."