I don't even know where to begin....

Rating: 1/10 (22 November 2016)

Right, I'm not one to write reviews because lets be honest, who am I to rate a film based on my little knowledge about film-making and subjective opinion. But this one made me so angry that now I'm typing and battling about whether I can be arsed to put down all of the things that made me shake my head whilst watching or whether I should just give up and hope that I have forgotten this piece of rubbish very soon. Nah, Sorry I need to get this out of my system, maybe this help me to get over this massive shock of disappointment.
Here are just a few of many head shakers:
-How convenient is it to have an old clearance so nobody has to work 2 minutes longer to give security clearance to anyone else...did Jeremy also have one lying around?
-Here comes Forest. Please listen to our recording: shdfjahdfahöfusdpfkjawrjfgsdns!! Please translate this, right now if you don't mind.
-It can never really get exciting because were over and over and over interrupted by Amy's back-flashes of her dying child which simply confuses and drags one down.
-The world seems to be run by the military, looks like no president or leader of a nation has a say.
-Forest and Jeremy are as useless a ejection seat on a helicopter. Forest does and say nothing helpful and the same goes for Jeremy, he's only there to be in total awe and to eventually fall in love with Amy.
-The aliens are a mix of squid and octopus with crab-like legs. I wonder how they build things. Let's ignore that in all of the universe the most likely (because it's the most efficient and practical in an evolutionary sense) form of body of an "intelligent" being is the humanoid form with two arms and two legs and a torso.
-Already the music (if you wanna call it that) or rather continuous loud hum is really getting on my nerves.
-The Alien's way of writing is the only thing that should have been interesting and in focus but the subject of deciphering a wholly new language is brushed aside buy being explained in a way nobody understands and all we get to see is that within a few weeks Amy has it all worked out. The audience wont understand it anyway so lets just have them believe that Amy is smarter then average Joe and they have no choice but to accept it.
-It becomes a political propaganda mess, yet again. The bad bad Chinese people misunderstand the words that are being exchanged, loose their patience and want to blow Squidward up. The bad bad Russian people wanna follow suit because they are bad and Americans are good.
-Oh look there's a bomb, nobody saw how it got into the ship apart from two soldiers that placed it there without being seen.
-The alien know about thew bomb and save Amy's and Jeremy's lives. Bless, now we all know they must be nice.
-I loose interest for Amy's drama, I just cannot care any longer.
-Apparently, what will seal humanity's fate lies in knowing what a mean Chinese person "is going to" whispers in Amy's ear which we will never hear.
The aliens depart and America saved the world from getting destroyed by another war. Amy wrote a book and now we are all prepared for when the aliens come back in 3000 years. But, is this child her second one or is history repeating and Jeremy is the father of the child she's going to loose....? Forward-back-flashes show her in hospital, the midwife passing her the baby seems to be the same shot from 5 hours ago when we thought it shows her as a younger mum...i just don't know anymore. Now is then and then is now and I just want it to stop.
I have not paid to watch this garbage and I'm very glad I didn't. I'm just so angry about how much I was looking forward to this and the ultimate realisation that I lost 2 hours I'm not getting back and the propaganda I was exposed to. I'm also annoyed about how obviously corrupt or easily manipulated the rating is. One must conclude that everybody involved in making this rubbish knew they have to fool people into spending money for the cinema to at least milk it while the deception lasts. I wished for a film that shows a sensible and realistic concept about how the human species would face the challenge of contacting an extraterrestrial intelligent life form. Language or other ways of communication would be a major barrier to overcome. But it would probably be the other way around, the aliens are likely quicker to figure out how to communicate with us filthy and stupid humans. Although they made their way through thousands or more lightyears and carrying a message, the aliens were made up a to be creatures that look just like animals to us and therefore the humans must find a way to communicate because the humans have got to be the most intelligent creation there is. *Sarcasm off*
I could go on for hours but it's not going to achieve anything so if you want to upset yourself watch it but do not spend money on it. They do not deserve it.