Seemed promising, but turned stupid

Rating: 2/10 (19 August 2017)

The movie tried to pull off a "The Sixth Sense" type of plot, though nobody's dead but the main character, Louise, can see the future. She didn't, however, see the aliens coming but fine, maybe she had to think about what she wants to see. I'll buy that.
A brilliant multilingual linguist, apparently, Louise tries to communicate with the aliens without actually speaking with them. At this point I said, "This is a stupid movie." She then uses a white board to write, as if the aliens could read human languages, but continues not to speak with them. Finally she decides to take off her hazmat suit to speak with them but here's the thing, Amy Adams has one tone of voice throughout the whole movie, along with two facial expressions: scared and worried. That's all she's got throughout the whole movie.
Then she finds out why the aliens came, which has been her job the whole movie, but instead of telling her superiors about it she just doesn't. Facepalm time. She also somehow can't manage to put her hair in a ponytail or anything, and it just blows across her face. It was really annoying. The gift, btw, is to give humans the gift of their language, which considers time differently, and is supposed to help us.