There was a good idea here failing to get out.

Rating: 4/10 (3 June 2019)

Watched this on the strength of high imdb rating. Judging by the hype here, I really hope some reviewers are getting paid because the alternative is depressing. There is an excellent premise; aliens come to earth but how on earth to communicate? The film is somewhat marred by dumbing down. The conversations are monosyllabic and the technical linguistics oversimplified. The sentimental effect of constantly jumping back to a dying child is an example of how Hollywood is hopeless at emotion.. Everything has to be hammered home with dull thuds of a sledgehammer. There is a dubious reference to time travel or something something about time being linear... There is quite a lot of confused continuity regarding what's happening in the holding Bay... Were those boxes of explosives supposed to be used? How did she get general Shang 's phone number and why did she not remember calling him thus saving the world? This could have been good...