I'm out of words

Rating: 3/10 (21 November 2016)

I dare not voting below 3, there's way too much rubbish out there that can be substantially worse than Arrival, but, boy... what an overrated movie! I was anticipating since I heard about this film being released and went to see it on the first Saturday it was on screen. I virtually dragged my wife to it as she is not such a huge fan of SciFi, but I told her this one was different. Actually it was, it was one of the most boring (if not THE most boring) SciFi film I've ever seen. Pretentious to say the least, but it fails miserably and does not deliver neither action, nor real interesting arguments for a deep thought. About 90% of the screen time is covered by different awe/worry/nervous/anxious faces made by Amy Adams. Not saying she's bad, but you really need to be a monster to fill that much screen time only with your expressions. Jeremy Renner is there but could well not be; we're told he's a physicist, but he could as well be a butcher and nothing would change. Whitaker's first visit to Banks' office is just a joke (he plays a gurgling sound recorded from the aliens and asks her to translate it... just like that!). The rest of the movie is not any more meaningful.
2 h wasted. Luckily my wife did not run away...