I love these kinds of movies!

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2017)

Why? Because I love good thought invoking sci-fi but mostly because these are the movies that when the reviews come out you can easily separate the small-minded folk with no imagination and lack empathy over, well...those who aren't those kind of people. You can imagine as you're watching it all the people who are frustrated with things like conceptual/hypothetical thinking just squirming in their seats when forced to deal with their own shallow incompetence.
The "Duh, I don't get it, it's got no plot derrrr"..."I don't understand this mumbo-jumbo liberal stuff!" people with the inability to follow a movie unless it's spelled out for them every 5 minutes, is especially interesting for a movie like this because well, those would be the folks wanting to "blow it up" cause of they fear and want to kill things I can't understand or control. Basically, Trump voters...you know, Morons.
People who can't follow this movie without a seeing eye dog and find it "boring" are those who probably don't read anything other than twitter feeds and chain restaurant drive through menus.
I know it's frustrating because of the lack of "spolsions" or gratuitous T&A shots, but it's a sci-fi drama folks. Please do us all a favor and stick to the remedial level Fast and Furious, Ron Burgundy, or Kung Fu Panda flicks when you decide to choose a movie to watch so we don't have to sort through every other review being a 1-star rated 3rd grade hill billy comment that includes the one word you use often that you think makes you appear intelligent but you either spell it incorrectly, or use it wrong.
That said; they did need to better explain and tie up the lose ends. I know they kind of left it open to interpretation and the film probably ran longer than they wanted but leaving it hang was kind of frustrating. What "unstoppable" disease killed her daughter, what was the help humans would give to the Heptapods? Why were the Heptapods ultimately there for? Was it solely to give them the gift of non- linear time so they can help them as well? Other than that, I enjoyed the basic story line and the direction for the most part, as well as the acting. If the movie was about 30 minutes longer, it would have been better.