The idiots guide to first contact brought to you by people who think the world

Rating: 3/10 (8 December 2017)

revolves around them.
The aliens clearly use a glyph based written language system, but the first thing that the expert linguist runs to is English instead of a glyph based system like Chinese, Egyptian or even Sumerian.
They use an oral language system that includes the use of clicks. Does this expert linguist think about using a click based language system like Kalahari to establish a form of communication? No. She runs again to English.
Nearly every linguist, sociologist, and anthropologist knows that context is important for developing a basis for communication when 2 or more groups don't share the same language. You use multiple objects to establish a pattern that can be used to create a foundation that can, eventually, form a base vocabulary to facilitate oral communication. You do not start with a sentence on a white board!
On top of that, the movie made the Chinese the aggressors which seems really odd when you consider that the US has the world's largest military; as of 2014, US spending on its military was literally larger than the spending of China, Russia, Saudia Arabia, France, the U.K., India, and Germany combined.
Combine that fact with the US penchant for using violence - both internally and externally - to settle disputes, and you really want intelligent people to believe that the US would be the one peaceful country in the scenario?
This movie was written for non-critical thinkers who want a white-girl-saves-the-world approach to SciFi.