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Rating: 8/10 (15 February 2017)

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The scariest thing about meeting aliens is that they could have bigger guns than us.
Smartly, the aliens in this sci-fi film are transporting a single humanoid to them.
Subsidized by an enigmatic billionaire (John Hurt) after her boss (Tom Skerritt) cuts her government funding, Dr. Arroway (Jodie Foster) is allowed to continue her research into extraterrestrials, which proves fruitful when a coded message arrives from space.
Once deciphered, the data details how to construct a device capable of transporting a passenger across the universe. When word gets out, religious zealots successfully stop the first attempt. But another launch with Dr. Arroway aboard is successful.
While the reveal of the aliens in this adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel is anticlimactic, the philosophical preamble to the final interaction is so engrossing the unorthodox ending is forgivable, even commendable.
Besides, real aliens would most likely be microscopic organismsattached to gigantic cephalopods.
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