Good Story But NOT Action Packed

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2016)

I saw "Arrival", starring Amy Adams-Batman v Superman:Dawn of Justice, American Hustle; Jeremy Renner-Hawkeye in the Avengers movies, American Hustle; Forest Whitaker-Taken 3, Panic Room and Tzi Ma-Million Dollar Arm, 24_tv.
This is an alien invasion movie for the crowd that is tired of all those action packed blockbusters. There is very little action here. It's more along the lines of a mental exercise. It's based on a book by Ted Chiang called 'The Story of Your Life' and the movie starts with Amy talking about her daughter's life-from when she was a baby until she became an adult. Amy is a linguistics professor-she can work languages like a puzzle and get to the true meaning of dialects better than anyone. All of a sudden, 12 alien looking objects appear all over the world, just hovering about 20 feet off the ground. Forest, dressed in a military uniform, shows up on Amy's door step, saying they need her help in establishing communications with the aliens. He takes her to the closest one in Montana where Jeremy is waiting-he is a mathematician on the team. Their mission is to find out if the aliens are friendly or just looking for something to barbecue for the weekend. The military are in contact with the other countries where the other 11 objects are located but no one will swap information with each other-each is afraid to give someone else an advantage over themselves. Tzi plays the head of China and he is ready to start attacking the aliens at any moment so there is a time limit going on. It's not a bad movie, just not action packed. Example; I remember one explosion and no one even got hurt-I think they just put it in to make people think the action was about to really get cranking...but, nope, that was it. It's rated "PG-13" for language and has a running time of 1 hour & 56 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD. It would be alright as a rental, if you are not into action-Like I am.