Excellent Sci-Fi with a twist

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2017)

This movie exceeded my expectations, delivering a thrilling sci-fi mystery with unexpected deeper themes. Here are the top three things I enjoyed about the movie:
Amy Adams. She delivers a beautiful performance as a passionate linguistics professor, who is recruited to communicate with the alien species. Adams delivers an endearing and realistic performance.
My second favorite part of this film is the science behind the story. Arrival explores the sciences of language and communication and sheds light on a subject that is often remiss, and yet, is essential to humanity.
And finally, the concept of time and how it is portrayed in the film. The film's unclear time line (that becomes perfectly clear by the end) beautifully demonstrates the complexity of time and questions our perceived conceived ideas of its functions.