One of the worst movies I've seen

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2017)

There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said in the myriad of other 1 and 2 star reviews. This movie is quite simply a complete and total waste of 2 hours. I'm an avid moviegoer, and I particularly like movies that exercise your brain as well as entertain, but this completely uninteresting, boring movie just puts you to sleep. I'd liken it to an extremely pretentious, ridiculously overpriced piece of abstract art in a gallery, to which everyone ascribes their own motivations to the artist, but in actuality was just a bunch of cockroaches walking through spilled paint and on to a canvas that was laying on the floor. If you want to watch a couple semi-visible squid-like finger puppets stand in fog for 2 hours while painting circular ink blots in the air, then ignore what I've said, this is the movie for you.
Now as to the absurd IMDb rating, I'm convinced that IMDb ratings have recently started being greatly inflated by some overseas company that's paid by the studios to submit very high IMDb ratings through bogus accounts, much like those companies that advertise on TV that they'll create your company's Facebook page for you, then fill it with positive reviews. Obviously that's completely dishonest, but for the moment it's legal. I reached this conclusion after recently watching another highly overrated steaming pile of feces (Nocturnal Animals), ironically also starring Amy Adams, who I happen to like. In both cases, the average rating of people who wrote out a review was substantially lower and much more realistic than the IMDb rating. With Nocturnal Animals I was so shocked that the rating could be so high while noticing so many horrible reviews, that I went through all of the reviews (there were 163 at the time) and calculated the average rating. It was a very mediocre 6.3, which is a number you'd associate with a so-so movie that you may or may not like, whereas the IMDb rating for it was (at the time) 7.8, a number you'd associate with a very good movie that most people would enjoy watching. I haven't taken the time to calculate the average reviewer's rating for Arrival, it's simply not worth wasting even more of my life, but again, having looked through 3 or 4 pages of the most recent reviews, it's painfully obvious that the average reviewer's rating is WELL below the absolutely ridiculous IMDb rating of 8.3, and probably in the neighborhood of 5.5 to 6.5, much like Nocturnal Animals.