AWFUL MOVIE

"The movie "Arrival" is already a strong contender for the best science fiction film of 2016" 

After reading this headline my wife and I decided to head to Regal Cinema. The movie plot was described this way:

"When mysterious spacecrafts touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks - is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers - and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity."

However, after the movie was over we left shaking our heads, wondering what we just saw. I found this review written by Rex Reed, which captured what we were thinking....

"Language, they insist, is the only thing that links the species to the future of humanity. Unfortunately, the aliens don’t really do anything but squeal like babies with colic, and there’s nothing linear about their language, so there’s nothing linear about the movie, either. Result: There is no beginning, no middle and no end. This might be O.K. for a language, but a movie has to start and end somewhere. Also, she’s lost a child. But in the end, you realize the present is the future and the future is the past, or something. So the child Adams lost hasn’t been born yet, and Renner, the new astrophysicist she falls for on a tour of the space ship, is going to be the lover she lost years ago, ready to father the baby, who will be called Hannah because the name is a palindrome. If you got all that, write it on a postcard and mail it to somebody who cares. I couldn’t wait to call Arrival by the new name Departure."

The movie was so bad that part way through - my wife fell asleep and I ended up in my nothing box until the movie ended. On our way out we overheard people complaining to the ushers. 

The ONLY interesting thing in the movie was a discussion of Palindrome. This interested us because our granddaughter has a name that fits this type of word. Next time we will dig deeper on reviews BEFORE going to a movie. 

Anyone can write a good headline about an AWFUL MOVIE!