Brilliant movie with a few loopholes

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2017)

SPOILER
What initially was supposed to be a linguistics based movie, turned to be a thought experiment (with shaky foundations of course, since it is a thought experiment!) about non-linear time! The entire movie is based on, arguably an extreme exaggeration of the sapir-whorf-hypothesis about the linguistic relativity (The way language affects our perception of the world). So essentially it is also about emotion and what it means to live if we already experienced time, both the past and the future! Somewhat like Eidetic memory(not a good comparison but somehow came into mind). When I first saw it, I was disappointed with the ending and thought that it was so random Time-travel stuff at the end. After pondering upon it for a while, I understood that it was a thought experiment trying to interpret what it means to experience something. Questions remain but still a brilliant thought experiment.
A few things were impractical like just having 2 scientists and a bunch of soldiers headed by a captain deciding almost everything and also plenty of time-paradoxes but still a very interesting thought experiment. The struggles to understand the language initially was also pretty good, and different from a lot of other old alien movies, where we just fight the aliens from the get-go!