I expected more

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2017)

In ARRIVAL, we see a couple of highly trained linguists, played by Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, brought in by the military to try and communicate with a network of strange alien ships that have positioned themselves around different places on Earth. Quickly revealed is the hawk vs. dove position, as the opposing forces on Earth express their opinions in trying to decide if the aliens' intentions are hostile or peaceful.
Kudos to the cinematography in the movie, but it ends there. As the movie progresses, we in the audience become lost in the flashbacks that Amy Adams' character endures, somehow trying to tie the memories she has with her daughter to the ability to see into the future, giving her the magic ability to talk to the aliens. By the end, it became too convoluted to follow, and too easy to stop caring about the fate of the main characters.