Oh my god....seriously?Dead On Arrival more appropriate

Rating: 1/10 (16 January 2017)

I thought with someone like forest whitaker that this movie must probably be pretty good....wrong!...from the very first scene where the woman is touching her baby's nose, and it starts wailing, I thought to myself that this is one lousy beginning...and all I could think is that this is how a liberal from Hollywood would start a movie to show compassion and feelings...how special...the entire precept that the military would need a college professor to unravel the language used by an alien race is so stupid it boggles the mind...then it just gets more and more ludicrous, unrealistic, and nascently idiotic as the film progresses...after about an hour of hoping I was wrong and that something would happen to change my mind, I decided I had better check reviews here on IMDb...and to my amazement, the movie had a rating of 8.3?????are you kidding me?...what is that about?...but after reading a few reviews saying the movie is a masterpiece...reviews which clearly have an agenda...I got into the real reviews and quickly discovered just what a total turkey this thing really is....long story short...I didn't bother to finish the last 45 minutes and trashed it, coming here and writing this review which hopefully will keep others from wasting their time on this godawful trash.