Could've been great, but....

Rating: 5/10 (11 November 2016)

There really are spoilers in this, so read after you watch and see if you agree.... Starts out so promising with the 12 pods floating just off the ground all around the planet. They kinda rushed through so many details leaving one to assume much. On the other hand, movie was dead slow in places taking way to long to make a point. I did find her interactions with the creatures eerie and intense, especially at the beginning, before the nonsense began. Trying to figure out their language and communicate with them was intriguing. There is the back story of her daughter from birth until her untimely death (or did she?), which leads to some kind of idea-- mentioned in only one sentence, might I add- about "Time being not linear", flash backs, or maybe flash-forwards -to incidences involving the Chinese general, Kids drawings, clay figures and Jeremy Renner was always there as the father of her kid???? What?? I was lost! And then POOF, the pods dematerialize and disappear. The point was totally lost on me. I found the sub-title words of what the aliens were saying to her hokey and out of place. After the first hour it's like the director said "OK Lets wrap this up quick, we're out of time to schedule in any sense of it all. Which was a real shame. For clarity, we are huge Alien/Sci-fi/UFO fans and rarely miss a show or movie in this genre.