Seen it before.

Rating: 3/10 (3 June 2017)

This is another alien replica, it looks and feels like an alien movie and the alien itself even looks like the one from the Alien franchise. The acting is decent, but Rebecca Ferguson does a fine job. The script is at times dumb and political correct. but what to expect when the director is Swedish.
For example when they talk about the syria crisis or when the astronauts acts like uneducated teenagers. Like they hadn't prepared at all before going into space. That enfuriates me or when they feel the need to explain that humanity hadn't found life in space before. Like the viewer is dumb enough to not understand that before going into the movie. I really dislike when the creators of the movie think that the audience of the same movie are retards. But the movie ain't a big long propaganda fest of political correctness, despite a few outlandish dumb decisions from the astronauts the movie picks up some pace and the good ending saves to movie from a total disaster. It's also so many similarities with the original two Alien movies,, so we've seen this before but done much better. There has been a lot of space movies lately and this one is somewhere in the middle if you ask me. Arrival still is my favourite from the last couple of space and alien movies.
The movie steps up towards the end and when it is all over it becomes a pretty decent sci-fi movie after a real shaky start.