The movie is twisted due to swapping of flashback and Dé·jà vu.

Rating: 3/10 (11 May 2017)

Here comes another 'non-spoon-feeding' film. Traditionally saying, 'non-spoon-feeding' is great for viewers. However, when the movie leaves no a single clue, it is turned to be terrible instead of an art. This movie reminds me of Steven Spielberg's the Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Extra-Terrestrial objects/lifeforms arrived at our planet surface and they/it are/is looking for some humans who can easily communicate with. The aliens used music instrument for communication (How cool is that!!!). In this Arrival (2016), The heptapods are not ... so ... talkative, but they like to write instead. Anyways, their ships are similar to the monolith in '2001: A Space Odyssey' ... "It's full of stars."
Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and Hawkeye ... oh, ehh ... Dr. Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) came to have a chat with heptapods. After that, the film was interrupted with flashbacks. It is not bad if there were only a few flashbacks, but there were a ton of flashbacks. Swapping again and again. You have to imagine that how fun a movie is if their have too much intermissions. No doubt if viewers have a bad mood.
At last, they were not flashbacks at all, but Dé·jà vus instead. At this moment, a question is came, Dr. Banks saw a real future or it is just illusions that heptapods rendered in her brain, which is to persuade her. In conclusion, 'non-spoon-feeding' is good, but 'Clueless' makes thing worse.