terrible garbage, worst example of "smart" sci-fi that was ever made

Rating: 1/10 (19 August 2017)

SPOILER ALERT: THIS MOVIE SUCKS HARDER THAN BILLY EICHNER AT A MALE NAIL ARTIST CONVENTION
I rarely, if ever, write a review, but this was so terrible that it made me so nauseated and disappointed that I had to sit down and write this review to prevent my brain from self-destructing.
Unfortunately, I believed the good reviews of this movie and thought that it was going to be a good, thought-provoking sci-fi movie. I really should have listened to the bad reviews, instead. For anybody that has a brain, an IQ above 100, and enjoys good sci-fi (and I'm not talking about CGI action stuff), you will be sorely disappointed. Everything about it was just so terrible... ("war" in Farsi? Come. On. I'm not even going to begin listing all the things about that short exchange that made it so incredibly stupid, forced, unbelievable, and ludicrous. Seriously, she would let the opportunity of a lifetime walk out the door without at least telling him she would give it a shot, but that he was asking for the impossible and will come to realize it?)
I'm not going to reiterate the bad reviews, most of them hit the nail on the head. I didn't read all 1300 reviews (at the time of writing this) but here's one thing I didn't see mentioned: So the Australians have already figured out that the aliens somehow lack in understanding basic algebra but somehow have a genius grasp of complex high-level equations, yet the US hasn't even been able to take the first basic steps of communication in the same time-frame? What, did the Australians not want to share any info? Seemed like they were being pretty open with everything on Skype...
It would physically impossible to list all the terrible things about this movie, it would take longer than the life-span of even the oldest person that ever lived. It would also just be a complete waste of time and brain cells... I honestly have no idea how 400k voters gave this an 8. Please tell me that the Russians somehow hacked IMDb's voting system to make everybody look stupid, or that the reason it has an 8 currently is because of up- voting from people involved in making this movie, because if I start believing that the average intelligence of people is really so low that they thought this movie was that good, I'm going to try to slash my wrists with the closest object I can find.
For the "smart" sci-fi that this was trying to be, it was worse than a failure: it probably made many people less interested in watching "smart" sci-fi and actually putting a few brain cells to work. If you value your brain, time, and the future of humanity, do whatever you can to never give in to believing the good reviews of this movie, and do everything you can to prevent other people from watching it. I usually give the benefit of doubt to movies that I didn't like, and re-watch it a second time to make sure that I wasn't just in the wrong mood, but it definitely was not just that I wasn't in a receptive mood or thinking properly... this movie was completely and utterly garbage. It's really an utter shame, because the premise is fantastic, but the film makers dropped the ball in every way with dialog, story line, etc. I mean, seriously, the brightest minds the US could muster were so unprepared that they didn't even think of bringing a blackboard or any visual aid?
If you sat a group of first graders down for 15 minutes, they would have come up with better ideas. I dreaded every time the US military leader opened his mouth, and it was not because he was accurately portraying "stupid military" but just horrendous scripting, plain and simple. Actually, most garbage is probably more useful than this movie. The only use I can think of for this movie is to use it as an example of what mistakes future film makers should avoid making to turn a potentially fantastic movie into a horrifying disaster, or as a terrorist torture device. Maybe they've started spraying some kind of drugs like MDMA into the air at theaters? That's the only way I can think of that I would rate this movie higher than one star. The one star is just for the fact that it's a sci-fi movie with an interesting one-line summary, that's about the best thing I can say about it. It wasn't even possible to enjoy making fun of this movie while watching it, due to the severe nausea and suicidal thoughts that it induced.
For those people that truly voted it that high, and have at least an IQ of 130, I implore you to please watch it again, but this time really pay attention to everything. Please stop texting or talking at all, because you must have only devoted 5% of your brain to watching this movie the first time. Texting and watching a movie, and then writing a review about it, should be a punishable offense. Please, I beg of you, don't get offended by what I've said, and honestly watch it again really carefully, because you've inadvertently made this world a more dreadful place.