Not a sci-fi fan

Rating: 2/10 (23 November 2016)

I was hoping this was as exciting as Alien which is one of the only sci fi movies I liked...not even close. It was almost as boring as Contact. I could have fallen asleep during this movie it was so slow. Amy Adams is a great actor as are Jeremy Renner & Forest Whitaker. Their talents were wasted on this film. There are so many groan moments...oh please...like Amy Adams speaks to someone in Japanese but later that same person speaks perfect English. The first spaceship we see looked like a huge chicken egg...I was thinking a big chicken was going to pop out of it....that made me chuckle to myself. Talk about stereotyping Americans as looters...Japanese & Russians as antagonizers. I should have listened to the guy who told me to go see The Accountant instead of Arrival. Oh well....at least it was cheap tuesday...