chaotic and irritating

Rating: 4/10 (16 April 2017)

The movie is underexposed. The sound is muddy. I think they did this deliberately to enhance the mysteriousness of the squid creatures from outer space. But the net result is you can't tell what is going on.
The movie is very confusing, jumping about chaotically in space and time with very few clues where you are. It is downright irritating.
The heroine is quite insipid.
The plot makes no sense. Our heroine is yanked out of bed in the middle of the night by military types to try to decrypt an alien language. Why her? She speaks Pakistani. Huh?? She is put in charge, then no one listens to what she says. They don't just disagree, they refuse to let her say anything.
They crack the code in two breakthroughs without explanation. The heroine discovers she can see the future with absolute clarity. Oddly, she had never noticed any such ability before. Seriously?? Everyone but her wants to go to war with the squid people. She prevails, but what she did to change all those minds is a mystery.
For the last bit of the dialogue, they pasted together Hallmark card verses. It is nauseatingly saccharine.
Nothing in the movie makes sense. It is maddening as a mosquito bite.