A wonderful Arrival

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2017)

This movie has been a blow of fresh air. It is not the typical alien invasion movie. If you are looking for some action kind of "War of the Worlds" or "Spaceship Troopers" go find something else. This is not your movie. This goes beyond that, to infinity and beyond, as Buzz Lightyear would say.
The movie starts with the apparition of 12 alien vessels arriving at different point on Earth (of course one is on the USA, where else?). The military then contact Amy Adam's linguistic in order to help to establish contact with the alien and learn why are they here and what they want. With her is Jeremy Runner's physic helping with the scientific side. So having this established, the movie then flows into a more scientific-human way to approach the issue than what we are used in Mr Bay's movies or as Leeloo from the "Fifth Element" would say: "big bada boom". No big bada boom or booms. The point is understanding what they want before shooting; something we aren't that used to in this kind of science fiction movies.
As in all sci-fi movies visual effects are one actor more and in this one the effects are well created and made with extra care. But of course visual effects without music it like a pizza without cheese, tasteless. The music and the sound effects play and important role in this movie because that is what we are trying to decipher: what are they saying. Needless to say both main actors keep the movie at its best specially Amy Adams (when is she going to win an Oscar please?). As usual, she is fantastic and she can transmit to the audience the weight she has in her shoulders as the interpreter between humanity and the aliens. She is THE protagonist of the movie. Nor the aliens and definitely no one else.
This movie tries to reach to you and make you think, not only about what would happen if we were contacted or visited from another species from outer Space, but also it makes you think about humanity as a whole, about life, about your destiny. What would you do?