Pieced together to make scrambled eggs

Rating: 2/10 (13 October 2019)

Hey, a movie about the first aliens to visit earth and make contact! Yeah! Wait, it seems this alien movie and the aliens themselves are background to some other story. So what's the story? Oh, that seems to be sending someone to learn how to translate alien gibberish. Wait, in spite of taking up story room, that doesn't seem to be the story either. Someone trying to set a bomb off in the alien space ship for whatever reason seems to be the story. Nope, that's not it either. Toward the end, the linguist knowing a tiny piece of her future seems to be the story, but then that's not it either because it's just a scene or two and has zero connection to the other story themes (language, aliens, bombs), of which there are many. I went to this because I heard it was a profound story. But the supposed profound bit just sits there, disconnected from and underdeveloped as a coherent part of the story. This story was so pieced together it appears to have come from multiple authors who all have very, very different personalities and who couldn't agree what the story was about. So then the aliens take off and we learn almost nothing about them. What the heck? The only part of this story that seemed to have come from one author's soul is the linguistic part, which takes up so much room. The rest makes no sense as part of this story.