Come for the aliens, stay for the humans. And run if you came for action.

Rating: 9/10 (18 February 2017)

I think an 8,3 would be fine as a grade, but since there are so many disappointed people giving the movie a one (you've got to be kidding me, not even the Twilight saga has that score), I've bumped the grade up a bit to compensate.
As an English teacher, I'll grant everyone that the language learning should have been done differently... The director steals from us much of the language learning process.
However, if you can stand the low pace (do not expect action or a fast movie), it's very interesting and enjoyable to watch.
You'd have to buy the linguistic theory the movie is based on... If you are a hardcore hard-sci-fi fan, you might find that some aspects the movie sounds more "magical" than sci-fi. Not the movie's fault, that's what happens in the original short story.
As for the people that complain about what the aliens are... dammit, cephalopoda are some of the smartest creatures on Earth. It has to be either insects or cephalopoda... because mammals are pretty rare (a weird evolutionary occurrence). So, the aliens were pretty interesting.
I hope you enjoy it. But it's not crap at all. Some people just didn't like it. It's certainly better than all the Twilight saga, all the Star Wars prequels and Prometheus. That's easy, though. It's pretty good. However, if you don't like the conclusion... you don't like it. Again, not the movie's fault.