Stunning but with a huge screech

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2017)

Let me say up front that for the reason I will lay out in time I would have given this film a flat out 10 stars without hesitation. It's with a heavy heart that I halve that score in grief for what else this film could have been.
That said this film will remain a modern classic, up there with the likes of The Matrix, Inception, Contact, ex machia... any of that ilk. It has everything in stunning filming, thought provoking ideas and philosophies. It asks questions without being rude enough to answer them for you.
You'll want to see it again... Despite my misgivings I will want to see it again.
So when flying saucers land in several major cities on Earth the audience is drawn into the immediate concern about how the various nations will respond... Nothing wrong with that until...
Until Hollywood decides that the good old US of burgermunching A is not only going to be the most peaceful, the most rational nation in this regard. Not to mention the only nation on the globe that has a single clue what to do next and how to work it all out.
Whereas the other nations, especially china and Russia decide to go all psycho and declare star wars.
Some historical context in case you're reading this in 2018... Obama has just left office and obviously Trump hasn't got us all killed yet.
At the time of it's release no nation on earth was doing more to promote bloodshed, violence, anger and malice than the USA not to mention a complete lack of tact, imagination and communication skills... China and Russia on the other hand...
The message that "It's OK, the USA has this, the Earth is safe" was layered like thick strawberry jam over every single frame of this erstwhile Sci-Fi masterpiece. All it needed was a marching band and pom poms.
I'm not stupid, I am well aware that nations and even military's have their say in global movie making but can't they keep that sort of nonsense for Stalone & Schwarzenegger movies?
So my message to Hollywood for this is simple...
How dare you? How dare you? How dare you?