Review -Arrival (2016)

Rating: 5/10 (2 February 2017)

You will be disappointed if you think its just another alien movie. If you need an action alien film, watch "Independence Day".
The movie starts with a mother, Louise, and her loss of losing a young daughter. It was sad. Then it jumps to the arrival of stone like structures appearing around the globe, hovering 20 feet above the ground. Louise is a doctor in linguistics and is called to serve her country by communicating and understanding aliens. Louise is teamed up with Ian the scientist to explore the reasons for the arrival of alien ships.
The movie goes on with the world threatened by aliens and different nation's different approach to the threat handling. During all the chaos, word spreads that the aliens are here to deliver / sell a weapon, which spikes greed in all the countries for it and creates more instability.
Louise however, studies the language and comes to the conclusion that the aliens are here to give them a gift. The gift of their language which will help them foresee the future as they advance. Louise's understanding of language opens the future to her. She sees, how she could prevent the war on aliens and help mankind. And she handles it well.
Now comes the twist. Remember when I wrote that the movie starts with Louise and her loss of daughter, well that part was actually future. Louise never had a daughter before arrival of the aliens. But learning their language cleared the future and she knew what would happen and how her daughter will get sick of an incurable disease in the future.
The interesting part is that she still chooses to marry Ian and have a daughter because she loved her so much in her visions.
The aliens left earth by disappearing after the gift. The question is, why were they here to give us the gift of future vision? Maybe because they had already seen the destruction of earth because of all the war and hate. And now they wanted us to see it and stop it from happening.
In my opinion, the movie was good but it could be complicated for some people. But do watch it and comment.