Do NOT be fooled by bad reviews

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2018)

I'm gonna try say this in a nicest way as possible; it requires a bit of IQ to truly appreciate this film and you need to be able to love films who has a substancial plot and not just a typical alien film with lots of explosions and people arguing about survival.
I was SO surprised by so many bad reviews, until I realised everyone of them had pretty much the same argument: it's boring.
Let me tell you this: if you think this movie is boring, then you probably can't appreciate this masterpiece on an interlectual level! This film reaches out to ALL the typical cliche questions I've ever had in alien film: why do alien always have to be resembling us? How come they can live and breathe the same air as us - who says they didn't evolve in different conditions than us? And why are they either more interlectual than us, or just savage beasts? And the most important one: WHY do they always understand us or conveniently have technology that can translate our speech? And WHY do they always have to use a mouth and speech or sounds like we do? Whose to say there's not an entirely different way of communicating in outer space that humans quite simply cannot comprehend?
ENTER ARRIVAL!!!!!!
Arrival is so complex and so wonderfully well written. I've studied linguistics myself and the approach during this film was absolutely, mind-glowingly amazing. They take everything we know about math, science and linguistics to a new level. I found that watching this film the second time is even better. I really enjoy how this is a film that is fully aware of what genre it's in, and creates some typical settings that the audience is familiar with, but brings in a whole new and quite original approach! And most importantly: it actually made sense out of what it was trying to do. It is fiction, yes, but so well written that it truly makes you believe that the language studied in the film is just another unknown language humans don't know about!
Please don't be fooled by these bad reviews I saw! If you're just into action and brain dead films that doesn't make you use your brain a little, then this is probably not for you.
But if you enjoy a true masterpiece that makes you think and reflect, and which stays in your mind hours after you watched it, then you'll love it!!
Had to give 10 stars because this film might just have made it to the top of my favourite alien genre films!