pseudointellectual mess

Rating: 5/10 (5 October 2019)

This is what happens when you really want to look smart.
The movie is a pretentious wanna be art house flick.
It is disguised as thought provoking but in fact it is eye candy for people who like to be force fed the most laughable cliches.
However, I have to pay appropriate respect to Jóhann Jóhannsson's incredible soundtrack and to Bradford Young for the amazing cinematography. For that a solid 10/10.
Unfortunately that wasn't enough to save it.
What really does it for me is that for some reason a linguist has to be there to ease communication with an alien species.
From this point on it's just circus for me. I tried, but I can't go over the fact that the best approach to such a problem is to call the english teacher.
Other than that it is slow paced, dull, with nothing even mildly interesting to say.
A "M. Night" kind of twist at the end that has no effect whatsoever.