Not your average Scifi movie...

Rating: 6/10 (20 August 2017)

I confess, I had to watch this three times before the story started to sink in to my Scifi saturated brain...yes kiddies, this is another very slow moving movie, where you must really pay attention to figure out what it is about...
Yes folks, I am a Science Fiction junkie...and I'm proud of that, as I believe it gives me a good understanding of the different ways alien contact is portrayed. While most have presented aliens as the nemesis, always a threat in real time, Arrival instead goes in a different direction entirely...
This movie isn't about alien threats, space battles, or any of that. Instead, it is a thesis on our own human paranoia. You don't know what the aliens want, unless you can communicate with them, soooo...
Enter the linguistics expert, our prime character, who has been tasked by the government to figure out how to talk to the aliens. The movie is very slow moving, has no battles, and if it has a message at all, it is that we are our own worst enemy, as always...
So the bottom line is that I did like it...but it does take a few viewings to get the message...
**Update**
I managed to watch it again for the fourth time, and well...I still can't say I like it as a classic SciFi example...but it is still ok as a drak movie with a not so hidden message...