Definitely NOT for everyone

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2017)

Before I saw this film, I was baffled by how polarizing the user reviews were. Tens and ones, but very few in between. After seeing the film, I absolutely get it. Start by asking yourself if you enjoy the following movies. Sphere(1998). 2001: A Space Odyssey. Solaris(2002). If your answer is no to any of these, particularly those last two, do yourself a favor and watch something else. It would be insulting to call this the thinking person's movie, because I can think of a number of highly intelligent people that would not like this movie at all. It would be closer to say it is the extremely patient, thinking person's movie. The pacing reminded me of 2001, though it is not quite that slow. There is very nearly zero action in it, but a whole lot of highly thought provoking concepts that build over the course of the movie. For myself, I thoroughly enjoyed this film, but I also understand the hate if you went and saw it, expecting something like Independence Day. In this movie, the battlefield takes place in the mind, and the heroes are the linguists and the mathematicians.