Full of Sound and Fury...

Rating: 1/10 (2 December 2016)

...and you know the rest and that fits this movie perfectly. Of course, the sound and fury is only from the pounding music which, in the end, is the film for the story itself is so trivial while managing to be full of inanities and contradictions. The list is long but we'll just throw a few examples of each...

a less than worthless physicist (at least Mr. Renner got more exposure) - an explosion that doesn't hurt humans but kills off Abbot behind a shield - a race intelligent enough to conquer space, time, and gravity yet cannot decipher our language - apparently more intelligent "agents" in other countries who learned Something more than we did - the lamest of excuses for a break-up - the giant biggggg plot hole of the "benefit" of "learning" Hepatodism; or, a race intelligent enough to conquer space, time and gravity and yet expecting a gift they should be able to use on their own that will survive for 3,000 years to return to save them (hope Louise lasts that long 'cause she's the only gifted one)

It is nonetheless an amazing movie; amazing that so many feel they got so much out of so little. And indeed, it does compare to Close Encounters of the Confused Kind. Only the musical score gets credit; since any rating higher than a star could be mistakenly applied to the film, well, my apologies to Jóhann Jóhannsson. P.S. I don't mind slow movies -- when they have something to say.