Great movie.

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2017)

A really rare movie. If you look for a blockbuster action movie. Look elsewhere.
It addresses a basic concept: What would we do if they arrive? We are carbon based and use language for communication, but that's all we can imagine. It's very unlikely that any other intelligent advanced technological life form followed the same path. It can be different based (environment) and it looks and sounds, communicate very different. The challenge. That's what the movie is about.
It's a story with 2 tracks. The one: Arrival how can we communicate? The other is jumping (mentally) back and forth in time. (her gift) What did the Chinese general say to her? Just the phone call he heard and she repeated it back in time. Like she "remembered" what to say.
A clever movie I must say. On a higher scale than Independence day for instance. That was, we are attacked and go to war and we win. Hooray. This was on a subtle way a great movie.
Like to see more of this concept movies. 2001 and 2010 where in the top off my list, but this is my #1 now. Enjoyed it a lot.