HALF of the best sci fi movie of 2016

Rating: 9/10 (30 March 2017)

This was advertised as the "best sci-fi movie of the year". We have maybe, half of the best sci-fi movie of the year.
Arrival promised from the trailer an amazing alien landing film, with the leads of Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams watching them. We expect from this, action, horror, violence and world domination. We got something much different. It was a chance well taken, pulling alien sci-fi out of the tropes it has been left to rot in. There were a lot of different routes it could have taken and this one was well chosen, Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners – 2013; Sicario – 2015) definitely made the right choice.
However, my issues with this film, lie within the cinematography. The shaky camera frames, the silent soundtrack, the hearing everything as Louise heard it as things were happening were all extremely disorientating. The film could have been made a lot better without these things, and with less experimental techniques to make the film unique – the plot alone was unique enough. The plot of this film, as before said, was amazing. Humans teaching aliens their language, and vice versa. It was highly unique, and showed great techniques.
The unfortunate thing about this film was that it didn't kick off until an hour and ten minutes into the film. It was a total let down and a shame. However, it was a heavy trudge through to get to the action in the film.
It was a shame, truly, that this film was advertised so big and for it to be such a let down in the first half, and it's only being rated a six out of ten.