Great, sci-fi about life and love.

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2016)

While most sci-fi involving aliens has de-evolved into ID4 or that horrible sequel The Arrival is a breath of fresh air. The writing, acting, directing is all at the level of top film making. At the core of the story it's not about alines, world destruction or any of that BS, it's about a personal story (Amy Adams) her journey through this event has you on your toes the entire film.
The learning of language and what the aliens want is just a set-up for an emotional gut punch I'm still thinking about days later. This is how sci-fi should be done. One of the closet film I can think of is Contact - even thought I think that this is a much better film. The ending will have you reeling for days afterwards but the reason why is because it leads you into the next part of the story and makes you think about what is to come next, which all great sconce fiction makes you do.