Pretends be profound but is simply confused & pretentious

Rating: 3/10 (3 August 2018)

I'm a writer by trade and understand what makes a good story. I also understand what makes for am pretentious story, and "Arrival" offers exactly that. I could handle the sentimentality, and the faux profundity, but not the lack of sensibility in the story line. It simply doesn't make sense. I suppose lots of viewers choose to think that the movie went "over their heads". Not so. I just doesn't hold together, that's all. Wasted two hours of my time, as it turned out.