Interminable and sleep inducing boring

Rating: 3/10 (16 March 2020)

I understand the story and message but the pacing is so slow. But then again nothing happens so the problem is there isn't much story at all. The movie starts with a flourish with great visuals of an alien craft landing on earth and the scientists cautiously boarding the ship seeking answers then the majority of the movie is a study in linguistics and alien language symbolism as they attempt to communicate. I can appreciate intellectual movies but I found the subject matter boring and the philosophy that life and time was a circle with an allegory to the scientist's own life felt flat. I cannot understand how this film is so highly rated much less entertaining. For me this was unwatchable. The only reason I rated this a 3 is because the production quality is not bad but the story isn't.