Terrible film

Rating: 2/10 (16 November 2016)

The good bits - the music is foreboding and menacing adding a sense of tension before we see the creatures and the shots of the spaceship are impressive.
The bad bits - everything else. The scene where Louise, the global linguistics expert, writes 'Louise' on a whiteboard to communicate with the aliens is just awful. How are they meant to understand English?! Her vision of the future where she meets Shang who's name is quite similar to Shanghai and he tells her what to say in her phone call to him, as she is held at gunpoint for no particular reason. The line at the end 'do you want to have a baby?"... This is just terrible.
It could have been an amazing film - it is a great concept to have a sci-fi film with no fighting but this was a film where nothing happened and they just left at the end. So disappointing and it feels like I wasted my evening.
Go and see Nocturnal Animals instead - incredible.