Subzero entertainment, meaning the suspense got lost in the vacuum of space

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2016)

First, I left the movie after 57 min as it was unsupportable. My lesson: never go to a movie at a last moment decision, especially if you read "SciFi" and a well known ACTION movie actor, as Jeremy Renner is, on the movie poster, as this could be a fake.
Why did I leave so early ? Because I have seen so many movies in my life that I did not expect it to become better and reading the negative comments on IMDb afterwards I got assured doing the right thing.
The movie started already with a dull,foreboding background music reminding me of the gray, clouded days in wintertime on a Monday morning where you have to wake up at 05.00am and prepare to go to work. Always a bad sign for a non-interesting movie for me. Amy Adams plays a supposedly talented linguist, who 2 years ago did work on a top secret mission for the US government to translate Farsi (the language spoken in Iran). And she lost her only child, which we see in many flashbacks. Then the aliens land, on 12 worldwide spots. She learns about this while teaching a bunch of students. The emotional levels of the students and hers about this incident were like mine about this movie: nonexistent. The worst acting I have seen for a while, beginners level of acting. Now to the dumbness of the seen first 57min before I left the cinema:
-after the announcement of alien encounter, almost no one seems to be really frightened, worried, running around, astonished or whatever, it seems like life goes on as it always did. Is this logical ?
-the colonel plays a 1 min audio recording with alien language out of the blue sky and expects the linguist Amy to decipher it in less than two minutes otherwise he goes for another linguist. Is this logical ?
-the big upright floating pebble stones (alien ships) come from whatever planet to earth, have sophisticated anti gravity, but are unable to build up communication in a sensible way ? Why do the have a 90 degree inverted gravity in the entrance tunnel 10 m straight above the ground. They could have landed on the flat pebble side, save combustible and make the entrance for the humans easier as gravity would be then parallel to the earth's gravity.
-While I would have been staring in awe at the spaceship, emotionless linguist Amy passes by on arrival uninterested as if she was used to these sightings. Maybe she plays an autistic ?

Amy and Jeremy Renner (the physicist) are being let to enter the spaceship without any introduction and preparation,on what they might expect (differing gravity, alien appearance...) ?

-What the heck was the chirping bird's role in the cage in the situation of encounter ? Why did Amy not introduce the bird first instead of herself ? "B-i-r-d, bird"

Wow! The floating "octopussies" were in fact "HEPTAPODS" ! (7 legs) This revelation in suspense was almost unbearable ! (How many legs did the Independence day "calamares" have ? Were they somehow relatives, as they also had some 12 flying saucers landing around the world)

-"Contact" Jodie Foster,...uh, "Arrival" shaky-hands-constantly-panting-Amy Adams removes her exposure suit just to show her face to the eyeless "heptapod" ? Why did she not take a big pin-up poster and stick it to the glass panel with her signature under it? Maybe also an alphabet and numbers poster with a Rosetta stone "Easy learning-English" audio-recording. Would have saved them a few trips inside the ship. Do names really enhance the understanding of foreign languages ? "Me Tarzan, this Jane" Response: "OO"
-The "O" Rohrschach-Circles must have been developed by a famous "heptapod" psychologist. Have I mentioned earlier why the further developed foreign race who visits earth does not make first language attempts and waits instead for the inferior race to struggle for it ? But on the other hand first-world tourists to the third-world-countries also expect the host country to speak in the visitors language.
-How much I longed for a human nuclear-rocket-attack or something exploding, but this wish was not fulfilled in the 57 min.
-The production expenses for this movie must have been below 1 million, as it played in a cemented tunnel, in a military barrack, in a university, in someone's garden and somewhere on a green field. The cgi for a floating pebble stone a two "heptapods" was below nowadays computer games.
-imdb ratings are flooded by false high ranking comments and votes since the last decade, with assumed, paid 10.000 to 20.000 "false" voters. IMDb ratings have lost their ground for me. This movie is definitely not a place 98 of top 250 movie, as it is junk. Even "Contact" was more exciting. -People, be warned, this was the first movie EVER, where I left the cinema before the end, because it was endlessly boring. <0/10