Good but lazy

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2017)

I strongly recommend reading the book first, you will loose nothing, just the opposite. It would help you understand what is going on. Movie touches the subject of "First contact" and how it would change everything. It strongly points that with no common physcical or cultural background we would have a very tough time establishing any communication. It is some of the best hardcore science fiction in years but I can't get rid off the feeling that creators of this movie got lazy or out off budget at some point. "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang was a short story in itself, but they managed to butcher it down even more! For what? It is still slow and almost meditative movie, what did they achieve by making it much more primitive story? They knew they were making slow science fiction movie and yet they cut all the interesting science and conversations from the book. The character of Jeremy Renner is more like a furniture in this version etc. Also I don't understand the deviation from the original story. They did not make it any stronger or action packed, they just made no sens. Movie is slow paced and focused on attentive audience, great soundtrack and very strong emotional story of main character going through some major revelations and transformations of her personality. Pepsi generation will say it's boring and makes no sens. I would say they are dumb.