as bad and nonsensical as interstellar

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 2016)

a supposedly sci fi film. NOT IN A MILLION YEARs, it is trying to be but fails on every level. first failure is that it is mind numblingly boring. now onto plot, aliens arrive, floating octopi, the authorities bring in a linguistic expert to try and commnicate. how does she do this, by writing her name on the board and repeatedly saying it. they reply by squirting ink that forms circles with flowery edges, this is their alphabet, in no time they can read our words, without going thru the alphabet, but by cards being help up, at one stage the physicist is walking with a card that says "ian walks" this is how dumb it is. thats basically the sci fi part, the rest is about her daughter dying and her dealing with grief, throw in some very lame time shifting, the aliens and now our expert can see time non linearly, so she flits from past, present and future. all to do with her daughter. see slaughter house 5 to see how time travel should be done. the aliens are giving mankind a gift, i think it is supposed to be world unity, but they do not spend any time on this theme. not be any stretch of the imagination would a hugely advanced civilisation do any of the banal and ridiculous things these aliens do. most of the cast including jeremy renner as the physicist have nothing to do, amy adams mopes throughout the film saying i don't understand, and then suddenly unexplained she understand everything, the space ships the just literally disintegrate, everything goes to the past for Amy and the end. absolute rubbing that took two hours for nothing to happen