Review of Arrival (2016) by Foxgrove — 15 Nov 2016
An 'alien' film to leave you totally alienated! This is so self-important and ponderously dull that it makes Ingmar Bergman's depressive dramas seem like comic farces. The screenplay is all **** and pretension in which Amy Adams' language specialist amazingly deciphers the black ink vocabulary of the extra-terrestrials in record breaking time.
A feat that only ever happens in the movies. The creatures themselves look like a cross between giant squids and an elephant's foot, and it's no exaggeration to state that their presence is underwhelming.
The first ten minutes promise much but we never get that film. Instead as soon as the alien pods arrive degeneration in to boredom is immediate and sleep inducingly effective. Praised by the highbrow critics, make no mistake this is alarmingly over rated.
A totally confused and uninteresting example of the sci-fi genre. Arrive? It certainly did.
This review of Arrival (2016) was written by Foxgrove on 15 Nov 2016.
Arrival has generally received very positive reviews.
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