Interesting Twist to Old Story

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2017)

First let me comment on this review board in that so many reviews are all or nothing. Reviews should be somewhere between 1 and 10, not 1 or 10. You can basically discount 1 or 2, and 9 or 10 as just people enamored or disappointed with the film.
With that said, I gave it the 6 because the story was a hazy hodgepodge of M Night Shyamalan proportions. If you are expecting a sci-fi thriller look elsewhere, but if you're expecting an old, well worn story of.. well I don't even know what it's really saying to be quite honest. In one scene the story seems to be that she is remembering her daughter yet in another she is back in the present. Only later to you learn that she has the ability to see the future, so she never really had a daughter but she knows she will, that the little girl will have an incurable disease and from there the decision she has to make is whether or not to have the child anyhow. Since she remembers it, it stands to reason that she did have the child, only in the future, if that makes any sense. I suppose her memory isn't as much a memory as a view into the future, and at one point she learns to actually realize when she's there vs in our present time.
Now for the aliens and the soldiers and such: What? These could have been anything it made no sense to have things that couldn't communicate. For something with a universal language, why couldn't they communicate with humans? If these things were from the future, they already know they came there and should be able to do what she did, which was to lean on those precognition as a learning/manipulation tool. That's just one hole in many in this movie. The soldiers were a hoot! Half of them walking around outdoors without their covers (hats) with the big brass all over, seemingly unconcerned as long as a couple of them wore battle gear (for what?) while the rest were in standard issue uniforms. I also found it interesting that the trucks were washed down as if the unmeasured radiation could be washed off, or that some foreign bacteria might eat everyone alive.
Now on to the plot: If aliens who had that technology wanted to kill you, would they wait months while you talked with them before doing so? What, are they going to beat you at Scrabble? Why is it always some other country that's eager to go to war instead of the USA? Isn't the USA the country that's almost always at war somewhere in the world? But no, Russia and China ready to do battle because if China says so, Russia is on board, and never mind they killed their linguist because that's what Russia would do.
Just what the world needs, a universal language so we can all hate each other openly. But somehow it brought all the countries together albeit still proud of their own individual national flags. Generals and high ranking colonels shoot first, ask questions later however for some reason the military was the ones who decided to attempt to communicate. Who was the 1st person to go up into that open hole? Did they go without weapons? Why? Why even go up into it in the first place? Why not sent a drone? Don't you just love movies that use deus ex machina to get across these gaps in reality?
Overall the movie was entertaining, but poorly done and it's really really easy to dismiss it as a chick flick, since most of the "science" was hogwash.