Good premise, poor execution

Rating: 4/10 (10 December 2016)

Maybe mild spoilers: The idea of the movie, that is, learning the alien language is interesting but dragging it out for 2.5 hours was just too much. It could have been done in 45 minutes without losing anything. A large part of it was just walking back and forth to the ship and going up and down on the scissor lift. The scissor lift got almost as much airtime as some of the actors.
The first time they went on the ship took, probably, ten minutes of the movie and then nothing happened. Much of it is like that. Walking around. Looking at ship from outside. Walking down the tunnel from the ship entrance to the viewing area. Getting on trucks, getting off trucks. Getting on the scissor lift, getting off the scissor lift.
Spoiler: If the alien were just there to give us their language why did they not bother to try and learn ours before they arrived so their would not have been such a misunderstanding. Don't they watch sci-fi movies and realize that misunderstanding through poor communication is a recurring theme.
By the way, go to the trivia section and read why they did not land. What a load of BS that is.
Save your money and wait until it comes out on Netflix or Amazon Prime.