A thinking person's Sci-Fi movie

Rating: 9/10 (16 November 2016)

After the recent rash of mindless/pointless "blockbuster" sci-fi (Batman vs Superman anyone?), this is like a veritable gale of fresh air!
A first contact movie with believable struggles to bridge a gap in communications, understanding, motivations, technology, you name it. . . everything came into play. Brave but flawed characters without the usual over-acted good/bad/mad/funny guys. Just humans trying to deal with a genuine out of this world situation.
The plot is very clever (I'll say no more than that), and leaves you wondering right up to the jaw-dropping climax.
The only downside was the tired plot device of America / The West being the good guys, and Russia/China/The East being the (irrational) bad guys. If you can ignore that, you are in for one hell of a treat!