Not Just Bad Science Fiction...Bad On Every Level

Rating: 1/10 (21 November 2016)

The people who call this train wreck a masterpiece are a little bit too carried away with their own verbosity. The theme of trying to establish basic communication with an alien species is one worth exploring. While Amy Adams does a good job, she is light years removed from Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker. The convoluted implausibilities are so numerous as to render the film incomprehensible...flash forwards, flash backs, clairvoyance, a phone call to a Chinese general she does not know stops a world war, PLEASE! Interstellar was similar but compared to this mishmash it was a model of clarity. I will have to read the book to even begin to make any sense of this. The "masterpiece" people would say that there are those who are not sufficiently cerebral to comprehend the genius. Then again, maybe junk is just junk.