Terrible, Borderline boring and Nonsense

Rating: 2/10 (8 October 2017)

this movie was awful. it was nonsense and if just less happened it would be boring to death. though there were some good things about it. the premise was new and original, the cinematography was nice, acting was fine and *some* visuals like the alien ship were great. but the negatives outweigh the benefits. so why is this so bad? 1. nothing happens: the plot of this movie is so minimal and boring. all that happens is that aliens come to earth, Amy Adams talks to them, Chinese guy gets angry for no reason, aliens leave. and this is a 2 hour movie. as i said it's almost completely boring 2. unoriginal: this movie as i said has an amazing refreshing and original premise. there were possibilities to what directions this movie could go in. and the completely unoriginal filmmaker hacks decided to make the most boring and unoriginal thing of this. and the designs of the aliens are just as unoriginal. you could do so much with some creative designers... so the studio made sentient trees! (or squids whatever). 3. the twist: there are a number of confusing flashback sequences Amy Adams gets where she sees her dead daughter. the ,,twist'' is that it's actually her future daughter because she can see future thanks to the alien language... well that was unnecessary and dumb... 4. the characters: every character is completely dumb. even the ,,intelligent'' alien life forms are idiots. so first the army: they ask Amy Adams if she can translate some alien gibberish babble noises because she's good at languages. then they send a team of people into a ship of potentially hostile aliens just like that. the aliens are also dumb. if they can see the future and know that ,,some threat'' will threaten them and that earth will reject them why didn't they do something like defending themselves and not going to earth which they know will reject them? Amy Adams is also an idiot. after she gets flash-forwards of her daughter and knows she will die (yeah the daughter is just a bad plot device. not even like a source of character motivation or something) and she asks the alien: ,,who is that child?'' so not just is she dumb she has no common sense. also she knows her daughter will die in the future she still goes to hawkeye and basically tells him if he wants to f***. all the characters are not just dumb, they are completely bland and uninteresting. i don't even know their names. 5. it's too long: as i said before the premise is interesting but the movie is unoriginal and boring. but this movie could be much better if it at least was shorter. if this was a short film festival kind of a movie it would be a lot better. but the fact that it's 2 hours long makes it boring and unentertaining. 6. interstellar: there is a movie from i think 2014 it's called interstellar or something and well it's infinitely better than arrival. not comparing the plots but what Nolan has done with interstellar is the exact opposite of arrival. he took a very boring premise and made it interesting and entertaining while i genuinely felt emotion thanks to how good the story was. this movie took a good premise and made it boring. i felt literally no emotion even though the movie tried to force it on me with the violin music piece. ugh. Tl;Dr: arrival sucks, don't watch it