4/1/2024 0 Comments Story of your life review![]() I enjoy heady sci-fi like Ex Machina and Interstellar as recent examples, but Arrival comes up well short with the only truly clever aspects being the aliens' writing method and the title. There's a fairly nifty revelation at the very end, but it's relied upon far too heavily to have a Shyamalan effect and cannot salvage the dreary experience until then. Naturally the military gets trigger-happy solely in order to inject some form of tension which is utterly predictable. She's a highly skilled linguist recruited by the military to communicate with these aliens, but none of her studying makes any difference as her only breakthroughs occur through memory flashes interacting with her daughter. Only Jeremy Renner shows any signs of life, everyone else is sleepwalking including Amy Adams who is blander than Top 40 radio. ![]() Their ships look stupid, the aliens themselves look stupider, and there's generally a lack of awe at this event. Big disappointment considering the nominations, which makes it one of the most overrated movies of 2016. If our first contact with an alien race turns out to be as boring as this movie, then I hope it doesn't happen.
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