Good, but nothing special

Rating: 6/10 (30 June 2015)

After you see Contact, you will realize that Contact was more of a movie that simply got over-hyped. The movie has a good opening half, up to the part where they actually get the signal from elsewhere. I thought that the day after they got the signal was rather amusing, especially where they were driving through the chaos outside and the movie is playing the song "It looks like a purple people eater to me" was quite amusing.
But the part where they start attempting to actually understand what they had just received was simply a bad joke. I almost laugh at the way their received images, having the alien's designs coming together in a cube shape, would something even use a design like this? Imagine how long it could seriously take to understand what came in a signal that includes image formats and whatever else.
Then when they quickly get the stuff built, it gets blown-up by some terrorist guy. I can understand someone wanting to blow-up something from the aliens, but then there's a second built version which is unknown to the public and actually only gets to work for the privately built second try. The immediate success in their sudden second location was rather bazaar and lame. Especially when they finally believe the story of her talk with the aliens after nothing but finding extra length in the recordings. Couldn't this have simply been because the equipment wasn't turned off immediately?
I honestly liked the opening half of another SETI-based movie, "The Arrival", much more than Contact.