It has arrived

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 2016)

Another year, another highly anticipated film from acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve, the director of "Prisoners" and "Sicario" is back at it again this time in the science fiction genre with "Arrival" starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. "Arrival" based off of the novel "Story of Your Life" follows expert linguist Louise Banks played by Amy Adams, who during an extraterrestrial invasion is contacted by the U.S. military to try and decipher their alien language, trying to find out what their purpose on earth is, do they want peace? Do they want war? Or maybe something else? Well that's for Louise to find out, but "Arrival" isn't really about that, it's a love story, it's a sort of coming of age story, a film about healing and revelation, beautifully told by Denis Villeneuve and writer Eric Heisserer. "Arrival" doesn't quite measure up to other works from Villeneuve, but it stands as one of the best science fiction films of the last 5-10 years.