Completely asinine

Rating: 1/10 (29 September 2017)

Arrival purports to be intellectual sci-fi, but intelligence is completely absent from this horrendous, tedious train wreck.
If advanced aliens who can see the future arrive peacefully at earth in a film supposedly about communication, intelligence, temporality, & consequences of decisions, the aliens should be sensible enough to realize that:

hovering menacingly incommunicado over another planet isn't a smart way to initiate friendly contact
they should wait to contact humans until they have deciphered human communications by analyzing our electromagnetic transmissions, possibly with additional information gleaned by discreet probes sent to Earth
they should be able to shortcircuit the above by looking into the future to the time where they already know human languages & communication protocols, and therefore wouldn't even have to spend the time researching human communications from scratch

Why would aliens who can see the future need anyone's help? Shouldn't they be able to devise solutions to detected future problems?
Why is a colonel seemingly in charge of one of the most important interactions in US & human history?
Why didn't anyone berate the future-seeing advanced aliens for not preventing untold human suffering in the past?
Why would a future-seeing alien allow itself to be needlessly killed?
Why would Any Adams not tell Jeremy Renner about their future daughter's disease, and why wouldn't she do something to prevent or combat it?
How can reading a language give someone the ability to see the future? Knowing how a bird flies doesn't allow one to fly.
How could Amy Adams not know in the future that the Chinese general told her the info to secure his cooperation in the past.
Why would any non-sadist help inflict this terrible movie on others by giving it a good review?