Derivative, cliché and bland but somehow enjoyable and well directed.

Rating: 6/10 (25 February 2017)

"Arrival" its a science fiction film that plays off as an "alien invasion" type of film, its quite rich in atmosphere and its really well directed but its severely flawed, "Arrival" its far from being a masterpiece, but it manages to be entertaining (for the most part).
Its quite cliché and derivative, it takes influence from films like "The Day The Earth Stood Still", "Signs", "The Man From Planet X" and most notably "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", but that doesn't take away from the fact that its decently executed, it features an excellent cast with some really good performances, like Amy Adams who does a wonderful job in the film, Villeneuve does a fantastic job at directing the film.
Maybe this film caught me at a bad mood, but I found it somewhat uninteresting and predictable, it has a decent message but everything that surrounds the film its quite forced. A decent film but nothing great.