Good acting but with cliché writing.

Rating: 5/10 (18 November 2016)

Do we need to have Alien spaceships land around the globe to know that we have major problems to contend with here on earth ? The fact that so many countries do not trust one another is not science fiction, it's a reality of which we're already painfully aware. And if the answers to overcoming this dilemma is dependent on some giant ET coming to earth and reading out thoughts, then I say we're in big trouble.
The film was more about the internal struggles inside Amy Adams character than it was about our first encounter with alien lifeforms. As usual Hollywood ran with the same old formula that 99% of these type of films always do. Politicians play their games, Scientists want to investigate but the Military wants to blow things up. Not to mention the same treatment that somehow an alien life form, with all their incredible technology and capable of traveling light years, doesn't even know the concept of communication. Really ??
Acting was good though but it was still an underwhelming view.