Too much drama, not enough sci-fi elements.

Rating: 4/10 (10 December 2016)

Arrival follows the same line of sci-fi movies that in recent years has infected Hollywood.
The studios hold up known actors (we know how they will react or act in each situation - to ensure a fat box- office), a director known to the general public and who has a few well received films on the critics, and try to create these supposed sci-fi movies very close to the scientific aspect of science and reality. But without ever representing science or scientists as they really are. Putting thus absurd ideas, nothing to do with reality, and in the middle of the film, transform it into a drama (sometimes in a melodrama - Interstellar), in order to try to manipulate the audience, emotionally.
Arrival is the other of this new sci-fi wave, it is beautifully photographed, with great special effects, excellent soundtrack (which does not represent the quality of the technical team at all, only that the director and the producers have a big budget to spare at will), but in the background these new movies are not sci-fi movies in any aspect.
But things are starting to fall in the last act of the film, when filmmakers have to appeal to the emotional side. How can you make a movie about an alien invasion, and in the middle of the movie, turns it into a drama? That is right, because of that there is not enough tension, and the movie fell into the middle.
The sci-fi elements are few and far between. The sci-fi aspect of the film simply disappears, and the film itself becomes a basic drama with a political aspect of not offending anyone. At the end of the film the main character convinces a political leader in such a simple way, without proof.
Not only that, but the Aliens aspect also bothers, the aliens do not even look like aliens, but sea squid and use oil to communicate, is this a joke.
This movie has more holes than a Swiss cheese. Seriously, a soldier tries to explode with the spot where the aliens appear every eight hours, after seeing a t.v. report on the TV show. Such an important act and then this same character left the narrative of the film, after provoking an event as important as an explosion, without any explanation.
A feather, an annoyance without size. I do not recommend. This movie will certainly be a hit at the 2017 Oscar. Because of the message of the Political correctness that this film tries to pass.