Meh

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2017)

Amy Adams is absolutely captivating, as always, to the extent she demands your attention and never, ever lets go. She is infinitely watchable. It's not genius, unless it's contrived by her. It's just her unique form of charisma, one that is to be applauded and treasured, and is worth watching any movie to see.
Sadly, that is most of the reason to see Arrival. The movie itself tries very hard to be mysterious, seductive, and interesting. But in the end, it fails because its philosophical and scientific kung fu is weak. Arrival utterly ignores such well-known time paradoxes as the Predestination Paradox and the Bootstrap Paradox and ultimately conspires to have you ignore common sense. To swallow the sugar-sweet ending (and you'll want to), you will have to pretend that an entirely new, completely unexplained paradigm of non-linear time is possible - one that defies reason and is passed without adequate...you know, I want to say "without adequate" but in truth it's without ANY explanation.
I couldn't pretend to believe it, and that's why I'm giving this movie 5 stars. Amy Adams gets 10.