Really overrated...

Rating: 2/10 (27 January 2017)

I really have nothing in particular against this genre though it's not entirely my cup of tea but I really have a very hard time computing the rating and applause for this movie.
First, on the story, I found it slow, extremely slow and laborious. The whole thing takes an eternity to build up as much as the lead actress which I found terrible. Her incapability to say more than two meaningful words up until the middle/upper-middle part of the movie really kills to whole dynamic of the movie.
Many scenes did not make sense like the ability for the undersea creatures to understand Latin characters, suddenly, out of nowhere, like as if these experts and military really needed Amy Adams to have figured that out, using a few-two baby insignificant words. They had all sorts of complex equations but it never really crossed their minds that they could grasp "Human", really? And, I'm not even sure the scene which follows after this specific sequence needs a comment.
Well, people might ask why I call them undersea, it's because they are a crossroads joke between Octupus, a cuttlefish throwing nasty black ink all over the place and a crab. For that matter, the analogy makes even more sense since these things seemed to be based in an aquarium protected by a sealed glass wall, floating and making some weird crustacean noises [...] I'm not really sure how the real aliens in the out there feel about this caricature.
Additionally, the main action scenes are fundamentally slow and boring.
I did not really understand the connection between Amy Adams' life with her daughter and the undersea creatures. The movie consistently tried to drive that focus in parallel with the main plot but I found it to be entirely unnecessary and perhaps used as a filling for the complete lack of interest that the main story is supposed to drive.
Seriously, if you're not into Hume or Niesztze type movies, you might probably want to skip this whole thing all together. These kinds of movies are for scholars and researchers, and, while I myself have reached far in studies, I don't watch movies to the same thing I do in university, hence why I failed to take any pleasure in this. Full stop.