Missed the whole point.

Rating: 1/10 (22 August 2019)

So bad.
I expected to see HOW a linguist would develop communication with aliens.
But no, we didn't see any of that - we went straight from "hello" to a couple of hundred nouns (and at least 1 verb) with NO explanation of how.
How could they possibly learn that a certain word meant "tool/weapon" ? Did she produce a hammer and say "tool or weapon" ? Did she produce every tool or weapon we have and repeat "tool or weapon" ? How could that word be ambiguous if we taught it to them ?
But if they taught it to her - HOW ? Did the aliens produce every tool and weapon they had and repeat the word/symbol "tool/weapon" ? How could she make sense of various unknown objects described by an unknown word by alien beings ? How could she know that it WAS a tool or weapon ?
Or how could they possibly understand what a hammer was ? Or whether the word refered to THAT object or its class (or its colour, or its use, or its handle, or its material.) And how could one explain or learn the word/symbol for the verb "to use".
A complete and utter failure to deliver what I thought was the central point of the movie.