The ideas within Arrival get more and more interesting as it goes on...

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2016)

I caught a screening of Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival" recently and enjoyed it. Villeneuve's film starts a little slowly, but stick with it because the ideas within it get more and more interesting as it goes along.
It's essentially a thinking person's sci-fi tale. The story involves space aliens that land on Earth and the US government's attempt to communicate with them. The film is almost as much about language as it's about alien contact. And the narrative structure itself is a little unconventional, but I don't want to say more about it for fear of ruining the plot's surprises.
Anyway, thumbs up from me. If you enjoyed science-fiction films like Contact and Interstellar, you'll probably enjoy this one. And it's definitely worth catching on the big screen, because it's also a strong film visually.