A Waste Of Time

Rating: 3/10 (4 February 2017)

This movie was recommended to me as one to watch and I couldn't have been more disappointed. I was just bored.And when it was over I was annoyed that I had persevered with it though I really knew at about half way that it wasn't going to amount to much. I will never understand why people rate films highly based solely on a twist at the end, when there is little or no tension, little or no atmosphere building throughout.I think people value a twist too highly.
This movie also exhibits one of my other great hates. It lacks accountability in that it's just make it up as you go along. Things don't tie together properly and even where they do, so what!!! Lots of stuff is unexplained like how they manage to decipher the language. The aliens are stereotypical squid like blobs which also drives me nuts.The music is lauded as atmospheric but it's nothing original. Think of War Of The Worlds.
My over riding thought when it was over was, it had nothing to do with aliens and all to do with communication. What was the point of the aliens??? They may as well have left them out. And the space pods/ships were just ridiculous.
A silly ridiculous boring movie!