Not for you if you're into *scary* aliens (you'd give it 1*), so stay away

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2018)

It seems a lot of the reviewers that gave this movie 1 star were expecting to see a typical *scary* Hollywood movie about aliens. By typical I mean something that features incredibly ill-tempered creatures with goo dripping out of their every orifice, whose only purpose in life is to hurt, eat and destroy us puny humans. Usually they are after our incredibly precious resources (which apparently are very rare in an almost infinite universe), really anxious to investigate the intricacies of our body parts, or some such ridiculous nonsense.
So, if you happen to be one of those people, you better stay away because you'd be really disappointed and bored (and there are no big explosions too).
Don't get me wrong, I like "Alien" and movies in that vein which are really well made (definitely not "Prometheus"). But "Arrival" is not this type of a movie.
"Arrival" is mostly a (philosophical) drama with elements of sci-fi. It is a thinking person's movie and a lot of the reviewers really didn't understand some parts of the movie - and I don't mean metaphors or *deep stuff*, but things that were really there. Maybe they were bored or didn't care, it doesn't matter.
If you're into asking big questions and you really enjoy thinking about why things are as they are, you'll probably enjoy this movie. It is really well made. The original story of Ted Chiang is also quite good...