The film has one interesting idea and takes 110 plodding minutes to reach it

Rating: 5/10 (13 November 2016)

The film has one interesting idea: that time isn't linear.
Reaching that idea is a plod so slow that I almost left the cinema. Everything about it is dull: from the dreary cinematography under leaden skies and gloom, ghostly Death Eater aliens lost in fog, dialogue that's lost in mumble.
I almost enjoyed the clichÃ©s (America saves the world, the military are thickos) because at least they produced interest.
Did I mention the gloom? It's soooooo dull that you almost need a pair of night vision glasses to find some light.
The acting from Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner is good though and the finale is decent enough if rather obvious by that point: time isn't linear. Wow. Great. Never been done before.
If you want atmosphere in an alien encounter then ALIEN is in a completely different league to this. If you want alien mysticism, which is basically how the language is transferred, then The Abyss did it years ago in almost exactly the same way. And that's about it.
I so wanted this to be better.