Arrival

Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tzi Ma, Mark O’Brien

Rated: 4/10

Complicated aliens, indecipherable language, language decipherers, time walk abilities and a whole lot of needless scientific jargon makes this mount, well, slow and unsteady.

The entire premise of the film is so complicated that you feel the need to go for popcorn breaks much before the interval.

So, here you have a spaceship, an oval suspension over 12 spots in the world, including Pakistan but not India, mind you. The aliens are tentacled heptabots who never emerge from the cloudy haze of the horizon. They make sounds that the US Army thinks can be studied and deciphered by a language expert. Another issue that this expert is a woman with baby issues, a death hangover of a child who we later discover are only her peeps into the future.

The problem with the film is that it is too static, unhappening and stuck with the problems of the alien language not being deciphered. Quite avoidable, really. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 27 November, 2016