Overwrought drivel.

Rating: 2/10 (3 May 2017)

In a nutshell, large floating squid things who have chosen several locations on Earth (amongst other planets) for some kind of cosmological game-show set a challenge to the competing teams with the winner being the first group to translate the squid people's odd language. Crack the code and you get, erm, something - perhaps the secret of seeing all time at once. I'm not too sure as I had drifted off a bit at this stage having become annoyed at the gravity reversal thing.... Of the humans, Jeremy Renner plays a physicist who doesn't physic but does exude an air of someone who would much rather be anywhere else than on the set of this unintentionally hilarious film and appears to be little more than a sperm donor. Linguist Amy Adams is brought on board to crack the communication/game show tasks. "How?", you ask, "by some kind of referral to universal constants?" Nope. By drawing on a whiteboard, shouting and pointing. Englishmen abroad have been doing this for years. "Two pints of lager, please.. I SAID TWO PINTS OF LAGER". Eventually the increasingly manic Amy (haunted by tediously repetitive flashback/forwards) solves the mystery, although as the squid people see all time they would have known that at the beginning. The final 'reveal' sledgehammered into the film was a depressing anticlimax, mainly because we had all guessed but also because the viewer just doesn't care by that stage. Oh and Forest Whitaker is in it. He's probably wondering why too.