Thorough and thoughtful

Rating: 8/10 (20 March 2017)

Expert on language Louise Banks (Amy Adams) retrieved by the authorities after a number of extraterrestrial craft lands around the Earth. Creatures are trying to communicate something, but nobody understands what. Louise must try to find out if they are peaceful or hostile before time runs out. Just time is important in this movie, and if you are looking for lots of action, this is not the movie for you. The film is careful and slow. Amy Adams is good as it somewhat strange and pensive language expert, who must cope with a major challenge. The film's strength is in my opinion a new twist in this genre. The weakness is that it sometimes becomes somewhat tedious. We would like something to happen. There is also a minus that in this film also pulled into the military engaging in an boring manner. The film has a strong and surprise ending. But overall this is a good sci-fi drama, and well worth seeing.